The State Department considered AP reporters Matt Lee and Bradley Klapper "Friendlies," and planned to "Place" Hillary Clinton email stories with them and dictate the timing of their release.
Eleanor Clift of the Daily Beast appears to feel left out when she wasn't invited to a Clinton campaign dinner for reporters as Hillary Clinton was launching her run for President.
On April 10, 2015, she writes Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, "John, I completely understand why dinner at your home did not include someone like me, who's a known quantity to Clinton campaign veterans. But I wanted to make an appeal for an early opportunity to get myself and the Daily Beast Political editor, Jackie Kucinich, on your radar so I/we can write and report knowledgeably. There's a long campaign ahead, and I'd like to establish a line of communications. Is there an assistant I should go through? I look forward to working with you All best, Eleanor".
The Clinton campaign believed it could count on NBC's Andrea Mitchell to conduct a helpful interview, upon its request, with Hillary Clinton amid the email controversy in 2015, according to WikiLeaks emails.
In April of 2015, Chief Politico political correspondent Glenn Thrush sent part of an article to Clinton campaign official Podesta for approval before it was published.
In his effort to get an interview with Chelsea Clinton, Mike Allen, Politico's chief political reporter offered to provide questions in advance, "Precisely" agreed upon with a Hillary Clinton aide.
PBS. The Clinton campaign apparently arranged for PBS to "Put the news out" about the reversal of Clinton's support for the Trans Pacific Partnership TPP trade deal in interview with Judy Woodruff on Oct. 7, 2015.
The Clinton campaign indicated that it believed it could use Ezra Klein of the liberal blog Vox to further its narrative on Clinton's email controversies in 2015, according to emails released by WikiLeaks.
An additional window into how political interests, including super PACs, work to influence and manipulate the news is found in an internal Clinton campaign memo published on WikiLeaks in 2017.
In the memo, the Hillary Clinton super PAC "Correct The Record" boasts it had placed 21 "Strategic memos" with the media that "Led to stories in a number of news outlets including National Journal, Politico, USA Today, MSNBC and The Hill." Correct The Record has joined other pro-Hillary Clinton groups founded by Clinton surrogate David Brock, including Media Matters and the American Bridge super PAC, in attacking Clinton's opponents.
The documents include "Research analyses," "Talking points" and "Blog-style posts made specifically for the web." Other products are "Media statements" and "Positive media relations with Clinton beat reporters, producers and editorsOur communications team is constantly in touch with the media and provide, whether in our own voices or in the voices of surrogates, a constant stream of statements to the press on all things Clinton related. And because media relations isn't just going on the record, some of our team's most important work is killing bad stories before they ever get written."
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