Clinton campaign colludes with media prior to official announcement

The following is from an attachment to /podesta-emails/emailid/5953. This shows that the Clinton campaign and major media outlets met before the official announcement of Hillary's presidential run to discuss strategies and the framing of the narrative they are to be helping to weave:

EVENT MEMO
FR: Jesse Ferguson
RE: Benenson’s Cocktails on 4.10.15

This is an off-the-record cocktails with the key national reporters, especially (though not exclusively) those that are based in New York. Much of the group includes influential reporters, anchors and editors.

The goals of the dinner include:
(1) Give reporters their first thoughts from team HRC in advance of the announcement
(2) Setting expectations for the announcement and launch period
(3) Framing the HRC message and framing the race
(4) Enjoy a Frida night drink before working more

TIME/DATE: As a reminder, this is called for 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10th. There are several attendees – including Diane Sawyer – who will be there promptly at 6:30 p.m. but have to leave by 7 p.m

Here we can see that the Clinton campaign has already determined that the media will be aiding in it's message delivery and wants to give the direction the campaign reporters are to follow when discussing the Clinton presidential run. Iimagine that they received a 'talking points' bible from which to determine major positions to any issues that were likely to arise. I imagine that a list of 'approved' questions were quite likely also included to help give the appearance of a non-biased media.

Now to the list of media attendees and Clinton campaign luminaries:

REPORTER RSVPs
YES
1. ABC - Cecilia Vega
2. ABC - David Muir
3. ABC – Diane Sawyer
4. ABC – George Stephanoplous
5. ABC - Jon Karl
6. Bloomberg – John Heillman
7. Bloomberg – Mark Halperin
8. CBS - Norah O'Donnell
9. CBS - Vicki Gordon
10. CNN - Brianna Keilar
11. CNN - David Chalian
12. CNN – Gloria Borger
13. CNN - Jeff Zeleny
14. CNN – John Berman
15. CNN – Kate Bouldan
16. CNN - Mark Preston
17. CNN - Sam Feist
18. Daily Beast - Jackie Kucinich
19. GPG - Mike Feldman
20. Huffington Post - Whitney Snyder
21. MORE - Betsy Fisher Martin
22. MSNBC – Alex Wagner
23. MSNBC - Beth Fouhy
24. MSNBC - Phil Griffin
25. MSNBC – Rachel Maddow (TBD)
26. MSNBC – Rachel Racusen
27. NBC – Savannah Gutherie
28. New Yorker - Ryan Liza
29. NYT – Amy Chozik
30. NYT - Gail Collins
31. NYT - Jonathan Martin
32. NYT – Maggie Haberman
33. NYT – Pat Healey
34. PEOPLE - Sandra Sobieraj Westfall
35. POLITICO – Glenn Thrush
36. POLITICO - Mike Allen
37. VICE - Alyssa Mastramonoco
38. VOX - Jon Allen

UNKNOWN
1. Bloomberg/MSNBC – Jonathan Alter
2. Buzzfeed – Ben Smith
3. CBS - Gayle King
4. CBS - John Dickerson
5. MSNBC – Ed Schultz
6. MSNBC - Joe Scarborough
7. New Yorker - David Remnick
8. Tina Brown
9. UNIVISION - Maria-Elena Salinas
10. YAHOO - Matt Bai

DECLINED
1. CNN - Jake Taper
2. CNN - Jeff Zucker
3. Huffington Post – Arianna Huffington
4. Huffington Post - Sam Stein
5. NBC - Chuck Todd
6. NYT - Carolyn Ryan
7. CNN – Erin Burnett
8. NPR - Mike Oreskes
9. MSNBC - Mika Brzezinski
10. MSNBC – Thomas Roberts
11. MSNBC - Andrea Mitchell
12. NY Post – Geofe Earl

HRC TEAM RSVP (14)
1. John Podesta
2. Robby Mook
3. Huma Abedin
4. Marlon Marshall
5. Amanda Renteria
6. Jennifer Palmieri
7. Kristina Schake
8. Jesse Ferguson
9. Nick Merrill
10. Karen Finney
11. Jim Margolis
12. Joel Benenson
13. John Anzalone
14. Mandy Grunwald

Can anyone say "media collusion?"

I knew you could.

when you have trump say, the first thing I'm going to do when I get in office is put in prison my political opponent....then yeah....EVERY MEDIA COMPANY should be against him

a reply to: jadedANDcynical

This shows that the Clinton campaign and major media outlets met before the official announcement of Hillary's presidential run to discuss strategies and the framing of the narrative they are to be helping to weave:

It does? Where does it do that? So when Donald Trump reached out to Bill Clinton three weeks before he entered the race, was that Bill Clinton and Donald Trump "discussing strategies and the framing of the narrative they are to be helping to weave?"

I mean they did talk right?

This was 2 days before the official announcement. Hardly the time to start planning the massive collusion effort wouldn't you say?

a reply to: jadedANDcynical

Come on you Trump supporter quit providing evidence of wrong doing which will not be recognized by Queen Hillary's supporters anyway. It has to just be something she did to help children and families. I mean after all Trump did say some bad things. And the Russians want him to be president!(ignore the fact that it is probably true due to them not wanting WW3).

The Media vs The People.... above all else,that is truly what is at stake here.

Something sinister has happened to the media in this country.

a reply to: jimmyx


Ummm...does Polly want a cracker...?




YouSir

originally posted by: jimmyx
when you have trump say, the first thing I'm going to do when I get in office is put in prison my political opponent....then yeah....EVERY MEDIA COMPANY should be against him

What if they belong there like the Clintons?

Then it's a Hitler takeover?

Wow, OK

originally posted by: Maverick1
The Media vs The People.... above all else,that is truly what is at stake here.

Something sinister has happened to the media in this country.

Yah, it inflitrated here.

"Framing the HRC message and framing the race."

It should read:

"Building the media wall 30ft higher."

a reply to: jimmyx

Well, you mean for breaking the law. Not because she's simply his opponent. Some people...

so.. giving the media a heads up that oh yeah im running for president and here are my talking points so you can get to writing your articles or planning your news pieces in advance is wrong?

I think you are grasping at straws, i see no harm or issue with any candidate taking the media to drinks and having a meet and great if you will explaining your goals, expectations and how you would like to frame your bid for the highest office in the land. hell or for any office for that matter.

This is only news because it is in a wikileaks cache dump but i highly doubt it was even a secretive meeting with a list of invited guest that long it must be super duper evil planning... .

i think it would be more telling if the only people invited were the people running the companies that then could control any content being put out by the reporters on staff.. but instead they invited the reporters...

have we really gotten to the point that we will try to demonize anything and everything the other candidate does just to try and prop up "our guy"?

i bet if you look hard enough you would probably find that Trump and all the other candidates did something to this effect as well...

The irony of all these massive news agencies who report on NEWS being told this is "off-the record".

Especially NPR which is taxpayer funded. They take donations as well but make no mistake they get money from all Americans of all parties. They should not be allowed to attend any meetings of this nature where they are instructed not to divulge or report anything. Keep it all internal. I have a serious problem with that. The other ones are private companies. They can do what they want.

originally posted by: neveroddoreven99
a reply to: jimmyx

Well, you mean for breaking the law. Not because she's simply his opponent. Some people...

for breaking what law??....you people can say that all day long (which you do). outrage, speculation, innuendo, and misinformation does not work in a court of law.

It doesn't matter what they find in these e-mail dumps, it's all Trump's fault.

The Clintons collude with everyone, it is who they are. They are the superpredators of politics and influence peddling.

Everything they do is a grift. Everything.

I can't grasp why people would take their side. Can you really be that dumb? I wouldn't think so.

It is fun sometimes to take the unpopular antagonist role, and work people into a frenzy, but come on, if you actually support the Clintons, it may be time for a lobotomy.

originally posted by: Cobaltic1978
It doesn't matter what they find in these e-mail dumps, it's all Trump's fault.

The Russians, the Russians!

Democrats got bullied by the DNC, Hcamp, media, corporations. There were much better candidates on that stage. They never had a chance to pick anyone else. Really sad.

a reply to: jadedANDcynical

WAIT...Why wasn't anyone from FOX invited?

originally posted by: Mandroid7

originally posted by: Cobaltic1978
It doesn't matter what they find in these e-mail dumps, it's all Trump's fault.

The Russians, the Russians!

Yep, with absolutely zero proof too. Only dems can parade around conspiracies that are defaulted to truth.

originally posted by: crimsongod21
so.. giving the media a heads up that oh yeah im running for president and here are my talking points so you can get to writing your articles or planning your news pieces in advance is wrong?

I think you are grasping at straws, i see no harm or issue with any candidate taking the media to drinks and having a meet and great if you will explaining your goals, expectations and how you would like to frame your bid for the highest office in the land. hell or for any office for that matter.

"This is an off-the-record cocktails"

How can they get started writing their articles or planning your news pieces if what is to be discussed is "off the record"?

If all they wanted to do was explain their goals and expectations why would it need to be "off-the-record"

technically all they had to do was hold a press conference to do that; no need to have cocktails.

But than again when you have a different private and a public agenda than I can certainly understand why you would want to talk about that "off-the-record".