In church address, Hillary Clinton pledges to be nicer to the media
Source: Washington Post
Back in March, Hillary Clinton gave an address at a journalism awards ceremony and used the occasion to make a pledge to attendees with notepads: “I am all about new beginnings: a new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new e-mail account,” she quipped, “Why not a new relationship with the press? So here goes. No more secrecy. No more zone of privacy,” said Clinton at a ceremony for the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting.
The packed crowd at a D.C. church this morning heard a similar pledge from the 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner. Clinton gave an address at the celebration of the bicentennial of Foundry United Methodist Church, the 16th Street NW church which she and her family attended during Bill Clinton’s presidency. Amid remarks expressing her fondness for the church and her own Methodist upbringing, Clinton struck a media theme.
In the moments before the service, Clinton said from the pulpit, she received some advice from Dr. J. Philip Wogaman, the former Foundry senior pastor who’d served the first family. “He basically said, if you’re going to read and listen to Romans: 12, you gotta to be nicer to the press,” said Clinton, to laughs from the congregation. “I will certainly take that to heart.” She also said she’d put the counsel “into effect.”
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This is brilliant. Starting today, the media will cease to overhype the email issue and will focus instead on the education, ecomomy, etc.
Granted, the article says that she said she would be nice to the media in March, but they still obsessed about her to this day.
But March and September are different months so that's irrelevant.