AP's Clinton Foundation non-scandal was the worst journalistic malpractice of the 2016 election

The year 2016 was not exactly a banner year for the American press. In the ten days before the election, the New York Times first devoted every single column of their front page to a letter whose entire content was that there might possibly be some emails on a computer the FBI had not yet examined. Two days later, the Times buried the Trump–Russia story on an interior page with the assurance of anonymous sources that there was no ongoing investigation. The pair of articles not only demonstrates amazingly poor journalistic insight, but showcases the New York Times knee-jerk tendency to kick a Clinton at every opportunity.

However, that was not the worst, most egregious example of pure journalist malpractice that happened during the election. That “honor” belongs to the Associated Press....
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