From Scandal To Farce: What The Clinton E-mail Coverage Tells Us About The Press

[Commentary] As is often the case with the media's Clinton excesses, the tone and tonnage of the e-mail press coverage tells us more about the media than it does about Hillary Clinton; about the brazen and unapologetic double standard the press applies to Clinton.

Why the giddy, overboard coverage? Part of it is because there's a standing army of Clinton-assigned journalists who are responsible for producing reams of content for the next 16 months. Consequently, the traditional guidelines of what qualifies as news now seem to be ignored. In essence, much of the press has written itself a blank check to over-indulge in Clinton minutiae in the name of "news" because the DC press is now pretending that Bill and Hillary Clinton are the King and Queen of the United States. That, of course, makes no sense. But it does represent a creative bout of self-justification from an armada of Clinton reporters who have reduced themselves to writing, en masse, about the former secretary of state's scheduling missives to her aides and doing it under the guise of breaking news.