“The FBI struck a blow to Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions on Friday, launching a new investigation just 11 days before the election into her use of a private email server.
In a letter to members of Congress, FBI director James Comey said the agency had recently learned from an unrelated case about previously undisclosed emails “that appear to be pertinent to the investigation it had closed in July'"
However this sad excuse for a general election turns out, one of the biggest casualties, in my view at least, is the journalistic integrity and credibility of the mainstream media - which has done everything it can to put the ‘establishment’ candidate into the White House, notwithstanding the fact that she is clearly as bent as a nine dollar note, and patently as fit for purpose as a bottle of chips.
The consistent cry has been that the other guy is worse. Even if that were true, I do not believe it is the main fear of the ‘establishment’…for fear is what it is. I believe the fear is that if Trump gets into the Oval Office, the corrupt system will be exposed for the cess pit that it is…and some very self-important people will end up living in cramped quarters, wearing pyjamas decorated with arrows.
…Here’s the lasting takeaway: The Clintons spent their White House years explaining endless sleazy financial deals, and even capping their exit with a scandal over whether Bill was paid to pardon financier Marc Rich. They know the risks. And yet they geared up the foundation and these seedy practices even as Mrs. Clinton was making her first bid for the presidency. They continued them as she sat as secretary of state. They continue them still, as she nears the White House.
I could not agree more. This may be the last chance for the media in general, and the FT in particular, to do its job – to hold power to account. So my question is this FT: Do you want the record to show that you covered this election as a real newspaper, or as foghorn connected to a sewer pipe?