New York Times reporter Amy Chozick said Sunday that Hillary Clinton is blaming the news media for her loss in 2016 as if it was reporters' responsibility to get her elected.
In an interview Sunday on CNN, Chozick said Clinton's comments about the media's role in the election in her new book What Happened suggest that its coverage played a factor in President Trump's win.
"The way she presents it in the book is a little bit like it was our job to get Hillary Clinton elected," she said. "Now, our job was to inform voters about their choices and how those choices would impact their lives, whether it was about Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump or any other candidate."
Clinton and her supporters, and even some commentators in the press, have said the media failed to thoroughly scrutinize Trump while paying too much attention to Clinton's email controversy.
Studies have shown, however, that negative coverage of Trump was more extensive than what Clinton received in the national press.
