One Year Later, Journalists Exposed By WikiLeaks Carry On As Before – The Daily Caller

One year afterWikiLeaks began publishingemails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta that exposedprominent journalists as partisans, many of those journalists are continuing their careers without, it seems, any serious consequences.

Take Glenn Thrush, for example. Thrush, now with the New York Times, was exposed sending storiesto the Clinton campaign for approval while at Politico.

Glenn Thrush, chief White House political correspondent for the The New York Times, works in the briefing room after being excluded from an off camera gaggle meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 24, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to [you], he wrote in an April 30, 2015 email to Podesta, including five paragraphs froma storylater titled Hillarys big money dilemma.

Please dont share or tell anyone I did this, Thrushadded. Tell me if I fucked up anything.

No problems here, Podesta replied.

Glenn Thrush sends a story to the Clinton campaign for approval (Screenshot/WikiLeaks)

On April 17, 2015, Thrushsent an emailto Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri with the subject line: pls read asap the [Jennifer Palmieri] bits dont share.

Palmieri forwarded Thrushs email to other Clinton campaign staffers, writing: He did me courtesy of sending what he is going to say about me. Seems fine.

Thrushs career doesnt appear to have been harmed by the fact that he sent stories to Clinton staffers for approval. If anything, his career trajectory has continued upward: Thrush joined the New York Times in December as a White House correspondent.

While covering the Trump administrationfor the NYT, Thrush has oftenco-authoredstories with fellow White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, whom an internal Clinton campaign memo described as a friendly journalist. The memo added: We have had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed.

The leaked DNC emails also revealed CNBC editor at large John Harwood as clearly biased against Republicans especially Trump.

Harwood repeatedly displayed clear partisanship while emailing with Podesta. In one May 2015 email, for example, Harwood warned Podesta towatch out for Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson.

Ben Carson could give you real trouble in a general, Harwood wrote, including relevantvideo clips of Carson on topics including gay marriage.

In December 2015, Harwood claimed vindication at the Republican party veering off the rails. In the same email, Harwood bragged to Podesta about provoking Trump during a Republican primary debate that Harwood moderated as an ostensibly neutral journalist.

Harwood titled the email, I imagine before continuing in the body: that Obama feels some (sad) vindication at this demonstration of his years-long point about the opposition party veering off the rails.

I certainly am feeling that way with respect to how I questioned Trump at our debate.

John Harwood emails John Podesta about Republicans veering off the rails and brags about provoking Trump. (Screenshot/WikiLeaks)

Harwood wasreferring to the October 2015 debate he moderated, where he asked Trump if he was running a comic book version of a presidential campaign.

Harwood has played a central role in his networks coverage of the first six months of the Trump White House.

Harwood has like much of the news media covered the Russia probe with bombastic language, comparing it to theWatergate scandalthat led to Richard Nixons resignation.

In a story last week, Harwood lay the blame forRepublicans health care struggles at Trumps feet.

New York Times Magazines chief political correspondent, Mark Leibovich, gave the Clinton campaign veto power over what parts of an interview he could and couldnt use, WikiLeaks revealed. (Internal campaign communications described him as sympathetic.)

Leibovich emailed Jennifer Palmieri, the campaigns communications director, following a July 7, 2015 interview with Hillary Clinton. Leibovich told Palmieri she couldveto what you didnt want, includingparts of the interview that he wanted to use.

Palmieri instructed Leibovich to remove a joke Clinton made about Sarah Palin, as well as Clinton saying thatgay rights has moved much faster than womens rights or civil rights, which is an interesting phenomenon somebody in the future will unpack.

Leibovich complied: neither the Palin joke nor Clintons gay rights line were included in his July 15 feature titled, Re-Re-Re-Reintroducing Hillary Clinton.

Leibovich noted in the piece that Clintons campaign at first declined to make her available for an interview. He did not note that he gave the campaign veto power over what parts of the interview he could use.

Leibovich is still writing long-form pieces for NYT Magazine, which are often met with effusive praised fromother journalists on Twitter.

His most recent piece, a July 11 feature titled, This Town Melts Down, explored what has and hasnt changed about D.C. politics in the age of Trump. One thing that apparently hasnt: the prominence of known partisans in the media.

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