David Leonhardt, a columnist for the New York Times, said that the national media’s greatest shortcoming in the 2016 election was lending too much coverage to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s email controversies.

In an op-ed published Tuesday morning, Leonhardt said the French press and its restraint in covering a similar controversy involving one of the candidates in that country’s recent election should serve as a model for the American media.

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