else? what made the front pages in the news every single day? hillary clinton s e-mails. take a look at this. a harvard study found during the 2016 campaign mentions of clinton s e-mails dominated news coverage far outstripping the most covered trump topic, immigration and dwrarfing his ties to sexual assault. fast forward two years to this week when it was revealed that the president s daughter and advisor ivanka trump has been doing the exact same thing her father and the media were fixated on using private e-mail for government business. so naturally the story has seen wall to wall coverage, front page headlines every day? no? no. this time around it seems like the media is again taking its cues from donald trump. very innocent. short period of time. very early on. you re talking about all fake news. but her e-mails, indeed. joining msnbc contributor, gabe
there was no doubt that gary hart s downfall changed the game of politics and the press. the only question left was by how much. it was that moment at which we went from being willing accomplices to a politician s indiscretions to being the vultures of their indiscretions who would chew it up, spit it out, chew it up, spin it out until we finally arrived at where we are today. when you have wall-to-wall coverage of every single stupid thing that anyone in authority ever does or says. we really did shift our focus away from world views and ideas. and toward this hunt for character flaw. it s about predatory journalism that says you re lying about something, and all we have to figure out is what it is and
another example? they are not charges from 36 years ago. by july of this year when he was spewing nonstop anti-trump vitriol, guess what? michael avenatti appeared on oncable news over 200 times. according to analysis from the washington free beacon, fake news cnn, conspiracy tv msnbc, gavend avenatti $175 million woh of free media coverage. why did he become the star guest? because he was trashing donald trump and michael cohen. now what we hear t about? crickets. news busters reports that cnn barely covered the avenatti arrest. msnbc also tried to ignore and play down the story. that is a stark contrast to their wall-to-wall coverage of the swetnick allegations with no evidence of regular gang rapes andde drugging of teenage girls
this. ed: i don t want to focus on politics and law enforcement. how many the human dimension. how old is your kid and how is your family doing? the kids are 4 to 16. we talk to them about it. the police in our town are great. made them feel very secure and supported. they understanding this is likely the act of a coward kind of letting off some steam. nevertheless, they will take care of each other. they are not going to walk to school alone and look out for each other. they know they are secure here. ed: you mentioned law enforcement and how important they have been for you and instrum negligence. we have seen that as well in bombing cases that we have been talking about all week. i wonder if you see any kind of a double standard because, not to take anything away from that because those are important stories as well in terms of all the democrats targeted but we have had wall-to-wall coverage about that. frankly, i haven t heard very much about your family being targeted in a diffe
republicans feel that their base needs. so the kavanaugh win or the tax cuts, it s like it has to be that you re under threat and under peril is the means why you get vested. that s a fact with which the trump campaign is intimately acquainted. if you talk to people in ted cruz s orbit who are close to cruz s 2016 presidential candidacy. the moment they saw trump s numbers go up and cruz s go down was a night in march of 2016 when protesters in chicago mobilized and kept trump from being able to have a rally in that city. cruz folks will tell you that when that protest happened, a number of republican primary voters saw it, fox news covered the whole thing live, wall to wall coverage, republican primary voters saw it and they decided whoever these people are