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A former author for Politico has publicly wondered why her outlet and many others have not published leaked information from Donald Trump’s Campaign.
According to reports, at least three major news agencies – the New York TimesThe Washington Post, And Politico – all received leaked internal documents from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign earlier this week. None of them has released information from what was previously Politico Lead author Marc A. Caputo was so confused that he wondered why. “It may be that the JustThe postAnd Politico are all working to ensure that no erroneous material was intentionally inserted,” he wrote in his Bulwark Newsletter. “But that’s not the explanation they’ve given so far for why they’re hesitant.”
Caputo writes that the information in the 271 pages of leaked documents also includes background check data on Ohio Senator JD Vance, which the Trump campaign apparently used to decide whether to nominate him as the former president’s vice presidential running mate. Caputo writes that it is “baffling” that the media would not publish this information because “what a campaign thinks about its own vice presidential candidate is inherently newsworthy.”
Caputo then cited the internal emails of Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman John Podesta, which were hacked by a certain “Guccifer” and leaked to Wikileaks in 2016. This led to extensive reporting on the information in those emails. New York Times Most of this happened in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. Caputo also discussed the stories about Hunter Biden and the laptop he left at a computer repair shop that were part of the news landscape before the 2020 election. He noted the extreme caution of editors at the time, saying, “This episode showed that journalists had overlearned their lessons from four years ago.”
“Perhaps these media have formulated stricter policies on the use of hacked material in the course of 2016,” writes Caputo. “But be that as it may, they should disclose their considerations. If the New York Times, Politicoand the WashingtonPost have decided that for certain reasons they cannot release this authenticated and newsworthy information, then the least they can do is explain to the public what those reasons are.” He stressed that it is important to get the information out there so that people do not feel that bias is being exercised. “It is important to introduce clearer standards – because it is easy to see that this happens again and again,” he concludes.
