How Clinton Emails Became The New Whitewater: A ‘Scandal’ In Search Of A Crime

Eric Boehlert

Journalism is often about priorities. The act of newsgathering and storytelling is more than assembling facts and quotes and providing context. It’s also about deciding what’s important and specifically which stories are more newsworthy than others.

On August 10, NBC News’ First Read, the early morning tip sheet, signaled to readers what the top news story of that day was:

OFF TO THE RACES: New Clinton email questions

From the New York Times: “A new batch of State Department emails released Tuesday showed the close and sometimes overlapping interests between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state. The documents raised new questions about whether the charitable foundation worked to reward its donors with access and influence at the State Department, a charge that Mrs. Clinton has faced in the past and has always denied.”

Our story on Donald Trump’s “Second Amendment people” comment is here.

So the morning after Donald Trump seemed to make a veiled, yet shocking threat of political violence against his opponent, NBC News dubbed the day’s top story to be a small number of 2009 emails from Hillary Clinton’s State Department that had been released; emails that Clinton neither sent nor received.

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