Archived Associated Press caught coordinating "Clinton clinches" story with Clinton campaign (twitter.com)
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Archived Associated Press caught coordinating "Clinton clinches" story with Clinton campaign (twitter.com)
submitted ago by Arrvee
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[–] [deleted] 0 points 12 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago
[–] 5432418? 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Listen to Dorven, he is probably right. When events are foreseeable (and it was foreseeable that Hillary would secure the nomination), news outlets generally prepare texts, headlines and graphics in advance.
It is more common in sports journalism where journos typically already write up two texts in advance depending on the winner to be able to be quickly deliver after the end of the game, but it also happens in other areas.
[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Obituaries too. If you're famous and retired, chances are, all of yours have already been written.
[–] chrimata 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
While the logic is sound isn't the image in the email of the tweet that hadn't happened yet?
Honestly I'm surprised no one has looked at the image Metadata
[–] Snort 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
Don't bring your rationality and logic into this! This is obviously a conspiracy of the highest order!
[–] Arrvee [S] 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago (edited ago)
The images in this Clinton email are labeled "secret win"
If a state-owned news agency did what the @AP did tonight in another country, our State Department would condemn it.
That moment when you realize: Bernie wasn't exaggerating when he said they control the media. THEY LITERALLY CONTROL THE MEDIA.
Protesters are using the hashtag #APRetract
[–] SavePrivateRyne 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Another user pointed out that sometimes news outlets do have stories like this prepped in advance.
Like how there is always sports gear made for both teams winning the world series.
However, the secret win part is incredibly concerning. What kind of idiot would label it in a way that is so obvious.
[–] ratsmack 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The media is corrupt?... who would have thought. /s
[–] Broc_Lia ago
Can someone explain this to me? I must be missing something: The whole business of having your tweets go viral, or even selling newspapers, is having your content ready to go as soon as humanly possible. In this case, there was a guaranteed major event with two possible outcomes, would it not make sense to have images ready to go for both of them, then spit the relevant one out the moment it happened? I gather they already do this with obituaries and other news who's content is pre-preparable.
Is the number of delegates she needed to secure the nomination some kind of secret? I understand the process is obscure, I barely get it myself, but is the number not something that could be worked out and put in an image? I'm not seeing the conspiracy.
[–] Arrvee [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The Clinton campaign produced a "screenshot" of the AP's tweet days before it was sent. The campaign had to have been coordinating with the AP to know the exact words ahead of time.
[–] Broc_Lia ago
Ah, ok, that's completely different, the tweet could probably have made that clearer.
[–] nomenimion ago
They don't care that she's a criminal; as long as she's a female Democrat, the White House is her right.