Probably. The media cooks up all kinds of non-stories when the goal is to tarnish Hillary Clinton.
Just for fun, do a search of both Democratic candidates in Google News and look at the headlines. Most of the stories aren't really based on anything because not much has happened in terms of substance over the last few days. Yet somehow everything about Sanders is framed in this hopeful, optimistic, positive light, and everything about Clinton raises questions and doubts that have no grounding in reality.
Heh. I've actually noticed that since mid 2014 (the Clinton negativity and spin regardless of anything else.) Dead broke was the canary in the coal mine that this was gonna be ugly. A gaffe that would've been a week long story tops for any other politician was turned into a 6 month+ saga for Hillary.
Even still, I never imagined it would get so bad to the extent it is now. Our media is barely outside of North Korea territory at this point.
A few months before the start of her campaign I knew she needed to aggressively attack and discredit the media (her main opponents) the way the Republicans do, so their smears would have less and less of an effect. She needed to ingrain it into the voters' consciousness that they were vehemently against her. It would've given her a Trump-esque teflon quality, with every media hit job just further placing her supporters into a bunker mentality. Unfortunately, they didn't do this. Most voters and even many naive Democrats bought their smears hook, line, and sinker. It's not surprising they did though, since rather than attack the root of the problem, the Clinton campaign instead decided to try to treat the symptoms and attack and discredit an individual story, making it a near daily futile battle. Why they chose this route, I have no clue. Perhaps they were truly naive enough to think the media would not try to destroy her? Maybe they figured it wouldn't make a difference even if they did try to destroy her since it was so early in the campaign? Were the Obama alums so used to favorable treatment that they didn't even consider a plan on how to deal with a hostile media? Or were they just plain incompetent? It's hard to say, but it seems to be the biggest mistake of her campaign.
