Media work to downplay latest Clinton email revelation

Published January 21, 2016 9:40pm ET



Some newsrooms are questioning whether it’s really all that remarkable that Hillary Clinton’s personal email server contained classified government data that went beyond top secret.

NBC News reported this week that anonymous government officials had characterized the information contained in the emails as “innocuous,” and ABC News suggested in a headline that the story was more of the same partisan ho-hum.

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