From the desk of Howard Kurtz: Media, stop trying to crown Hillary Clinton
Editor's note: Howard Kurtz is the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources" and is Newsweek's Washington bureau chief. He is also a contributor to the website Daily Download.
(CNN) - Hillary Clinton is front-page news again. What did she do to warrant this treatment?
Nothing.
The Page 1 splash in The New York Times the other day was anicely executed compilation of ... sheer speculation. That is, the same sort of chatter that everyone in the political/media world has engaged in since the day after Barack Obama's re-election. And it immediately launched dozens of cable news segments to rehash the rehash.
What explains this? Whatever happened to having to generate a little news, or even pseudo-news, to warrant some coverage?
Find out the answers here.
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