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In a stunning moment of candor from ABC host George Stephanopoulos during Sunday’s This Week, the longtime Clinton flack lamented the media coverage Hillary Clinton received during the 2016 election. During the “powerhouse roundtable” discussion analyzing the media’s role in 2016 (yes, they’re still hung up on it), he was put off how media equalized Clinton and Donald Trump when it came to their wrongdoings.
According to Democratic strategist Stephanie Cutter, the serious question the media needed to work out for themselves was: “The question is there, are you writing to make something breakthrough or are you writing what you think the news is?” “I think, it's a big question for all of us,” Stephanopoulos agreed. “You look back and say, listen, there were things done wrong. No question about that.”
But according to him, the biggest problem the media had was reporting the wrongdoings on both sides. “But there's something structurally in the media where we have to equalize everything,” he bemoaned. “If you point out a wrongdoing on one side, you have to point at a wrongdoing on the other and they automatically become equivalent and that isn’t always fair.”
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