An Inside Look at How Hillary Clinton Plays the Media

On June 30, the State Department released some 3,000 pages of e-mails between Hillary Clinton and her aides during her tenure as Secretary of State. Some of the more intriguing exchanges involved the media -- how her team sought to shape the news, the journalists they considered receptive to their message, and the close degree to which Clinton monitored how she was covered.

Much of this e-mail traffic involved Philippe Reines, a senior advisor and spokesman for Clinton known for his combative exchanges with the press. One e-mail thread that underscored the Clinton team's focus on message-control came in late May 2009, ahead of a meeting of the Organization of American States. Its member-nations span North and South America and were poised to vote on whether to revoke Cuba's decades-long suspension from OAS.