Comey and Smith, a story of one double standard
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A judge releasing Jack Smith’s superseding indictment, providing extensive evidence that Donald Trump was the central figure in a seditionist conspiracy, provides us with a good case study with which to contrast coverage of the “James Comey found some emails that were very unsurprisingly found to be immaterial within 10 days” story from 2016. The findings might not necessarily surprise you:
The five newspapers — NY Times, Wash. Post, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, and USA Today — ran over 6 times as many combined front-page stories that mentioned Clinton’s server (46) as they did front-page stories that mentioned Trump’s indictment (7) over those periods. pic.twitter.com/tf0Da0dgtb— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) October 10, 2024
That’s pretty dispositive evidence of a double standard that benefits Trump, particularly since by any objective measure the Smith indictment is a far more important story.
The other thing worth noting here is that while EMAILS! was a universal frenzy within the political media, it’s still striking how far off the deep end the Times was. It was far more obsessed with the Comey letter than the publication owned by Rupert Murdoch. There’s a good book to be written about the Times and the 2016 election if anyone is gutsy enough to write it.