Clinton, the inartful dodger

Published August 14, 2016 4:01am ET



Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has given just a handful of press conferences since she began mererly hinting that she might run for president. A few news outlets point this out occasionally, but most let her get away with it.

Meanwhile her rival, GOP nominee Donald Trump, has a reputation for being hostile toward the press because he blacklists organizations and certain reporters from his events and routinely calls out media bias. But as Politico noted last week, Clinton has been using Trump’s treatment of the press as cover for her own avoidance.

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