An interesting observation from Scott Whitlock at NewsBusters:
Cover-Up: Major Newspapers Keep Hillary's E-Mails Off the Front Page
Four of the country's largest newspapers on Wednesday kept the latest developments in Hillary Clinton's growing E-mail scandal off the front page (one kept it out of the paper completely). The revelation that the Democratic candidate had top secret information on her server was relegated to the bottom of page A13 in the New York Times.
The Washington Post managed to place the news that Clinton will finally turn over her server on A2. The Los Angeles Times hid the story on A9. All of these newspapers, however, did better than USA Today, which completely skipped Clinton's scandal in the print edition.
The New York Times's headline charitably portrayed the Democratic frontrunner as just trying to clear things up: "Clinton Directs Aides to Give Email and Thumb drive to the Justice Department." This tone continued in journalist Michael Schmidt's lead sentence:
Hillary Rodham Clinton has directed her aides to give the Justice Department an email server that housed the personal account that she used exclusively while secretary of state, along with a thumb drive that contained copies of the emails, her presidential campaign said on Tuesday.
He then allowed:
Earlier on Tuesday, the inspector general for the intelligence community told members of Congress that Mrs. Clinton had “top secret” information — the highest classification of government intelligence — in two emails among the 40 from the private account that the State Department has allowed him to review.
It wasn't until paragraph 18 (of a 19 paragraph story) that Republican criticism was allowed. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa was quoted about Clinton handing over the server: "That’s a long time for top secret classified information to be held by an unauthorized person outside of an approved, secure government facility."
Much more at the site - the media is not even attempting to conceal its bias. And they wonder why their sales are tanking - they keep pandering to the same crowd.
