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Los Angeles Times

Press reaction to Trump campaign email leak starkly different from 2016, when Clinton was hacked

Los Angeles Times
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The New York Times , Politico and Washington Post opted not to publish the Trump campaign's hacked emails.

Hillary Clinton's emails were leaked just before the 2016 election, but there was no media frenzy over the contents of the breach.

The Times and the Washington Post have not gone into detail about why they didn't publish the emails.

Clinton adviser Neera Tanden : "The manner of the hacking made them cover a Russian psyop? That is not a justification. That’s a rationalization.” The issue is around the media's absence of self-examination about its actions in 2016 , and its lack of candid discussion.