Clinton campaign kills negative story

[jefferson_dem]

Clinton campaign kills negative story
By: Ben Smith
September 24, 2007 04:52 PM EST

Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president learned that the men’s magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland.

So Clinton’s aides pulled a page from the book of Hollywood publicists and offered GQ a stark choice: Kill the piece, or lose access to planned celebrity coverboy Bill Clinton.

Despite internal protests, GQ editor Jim Nelson met the Clinton campaign’s demands, which had been delivered by Bill Clinton’s spokesman, Jay Carson, several sources familiar with the conversations said.

GQ writer George Saunders traveled with Clinton to Africa in July, and Clinton is slated to appear on the cover of GQ’s December issue, in which it traditionally names a “Man of the Year,” according magazine industry sources.

And the offending article by Atlantic Monthly staff writer Josh Green got the spike.

“I don’t really get into the inner workings of the magazine, but I can tell you that yes, we did kill a Hillary piece. We kill pieces all the time for a variety of reasons,” Nelson said in an e-mail to Politico.

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[rinsd]

1. IL-P is ahead of you

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3545287

[MethuenProgressive]

2. "We kill pieces all the time for a variety of reasons,” - GQ editor Jim Nelson

Nice Obama logo in your post, btw.

[William769]

3. One threads not enough?

[DURHAM D]

6. This is the third one I have seen this pm.

Note: Some poster named "katty" has one up also.

[lligrd]

4. Journalistic Integrity RIP nt

[AtomicKitten]

5. Steroids in politics.

[DURHAM D]

7. Has Drudge posted it yet?

I mean, isn't that who Ben Smith reallly writes for?

[dsc]

8. Good for her

And I would say this about any candidate who did this. This is exactly what we should do. Play every card we have to make sure press coverage is as fair as possible. Good, very good, for her. I am tired of us being patsies.

[sandnsea]

9. They have media control

I've been saying this for years. If they wanted to get any particular Dem message out, they could.

If you wonder why a particular war or Bush or Katrina or any other story hasn't been told - it's because the Clintons didn't want it told.

[rinsd]

11. The Clenis is almighty!

[sandnsea]

13. "stay the course"

That's what you're voting for. The blood will be on the hands of all you Hillary supporters now.

[rinsd]

14. Sorry I don't do Lady MacBeth

As for your theory that the Clintons control the media :rofl:

[sandnsea]

16. All 5 Sunday shows?

You think just anybody can pull that off? All you have to do is put "clinton machine" in Google and there it all is. The above is just one of the few people who have been absolutely straight forward about it. The Clintons control the media every bit as much as the Bush White House does.

[rinsd]

17. "Clinton machine" into google = bunch of rw nutjobs websites

Including free republic.

Which makes sense.

[sandnsea]

20. Uhm, she's a "fighter"

The "machine" is your key reason for supporting her. When you talk about the Clintons' "fight", you're talking about the machine. The OP is how they do it.

[rinsd]

23. But I thought typing "clinton machine" would tell me all I need to know

And all I came across there were paranoid rw fantasies about the all powerful Clintons and one TNR article making fun of them.

Go figure

:shrug:

[sandnsea]

24. Then you're denying she can fight

No machine, no fight. There's story after story of their vindictive threats against people who support other candidates, etc. This is who they are. I don't know why you're denying it.

[rinsd]

25. She can only be a fighter if she control the media....hmmmm that's some logic you got going there.

"There's story after story of their vindictive threats against people who support other candidates"

Saying you can't use the Big Dawg to sell magazines if you publish a hit piece on his wife is vindictive?

Story after story? Oh yeah that google clinton machine thing again. Plenty written on FR about that.

[sandnsea]

26. Well duh.

What have we been fighting for 6+ years - media control. We keep thinking Dems don't have it because the liberal Dem message doesn't get out. We forget the DLC Dem message DOES get out - and who leads the DLC.

You support threatening the press?

:crazy:

Yeah, story after story and you know it's true and you know it isn't just on the right either.

[rinsd]

29. ....

"Yeah, story after story and you know it's true and you know it isn't just on the right either."

Well there's always you.

[ElizabethDC]

18. Any one of the "top tier" candidates could probably do all 5 Sunday shows if they want to

I don't think any of them are gonna turn Obama down or anything. (The same probably goes for most, if not all, of the candidates.)

[sandnsea]

21. No, they couldn't

The Clintons can because they can threaten to withhold Bill. So ask yourself why they haven't used that power to go after 100 different stories on Bush?

[Ethelk2044]

10. that is the very reason why the MSM is siding with Clinton

[jcrew2001]

12. The MSM realizes that a Hillary campaign trainwreck would get ratings

and that is why they are pushing her - for the ratings that scandal and divisiveness brings.

[Name removed]

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[Ethelk2044]

27. Did your mother stop taking her's

[Clintonista2]

28. Umm... zing?

..I...think?!?

[jcrew2001]

19. Can the washington Post run the story instead?

or maybe the nytimes?

[sandnsea]

22. They carry Clinton water too

You wonder why the DLC message always gets into those papers?? You should.