The Wikileaks emails are revealing of collusion, corruption, mendacity, etc. but they also reveal that legacy politicians and legacy media seem to believe that they are still the center of the communications universe. Yes, they’ve let Politico and a few other outlets into their little power circle but for the most part they pretend the rest of the Internet doesn’t exist. Is this ignorance? Wishful thinking? The knowledge that one story planted will be picked up by broadcasters and local rags automatically?
My point is that the Clintons/DNC are living in a 1992 fool’s paradise if they think getting the 3 networks, the NYT and the Wash Post to dummy up on a story is an achievement. These abusers of the First Amendment were in the bag all along.
There is a vast difference between refusing to talk about your emails, denying their content, etc. and having the public gain direct, unfiltered access to your unguarded thoughts. Donna Brazile is one of the most odious human beings (?) walking the planet but she seems to grasp the challenge here: this is not 24 lines in a speech or a so-called controversial remark, this is 20,000 potential mines in a very tight field with 30,000 even more explosive mines to be added at a crucial moment ie Hillary’s own ‘deleted’ emails (how ignorant her team truly are).
The usual ‘I love the blacks/gays/Latinos/lefthanded’ pandering will become even more of a dial tone if everyone else is talking about the juicy details that have already seen the DNC chair bounced within days of the convention.
Violent street protests make nice photos but having their cynical enterprise revealed in full is what will derail the Dem campaign.
That’s true. New media. They can’t control it.
She didn’t understand the technology.
Excellent post.