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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Free Media And HRC: A Skeptic

By Marc Ambinder

Jan 9 2008, 4:19 PM ET Comment

A reader writes:

I am curious as to why you don't credit the HUGE amount of free media beginning with [Monday night's] nightly news broadcasts, presumably local news at 11 (I don't know as I didn't see), and all of [Tuesday]'s morning programs leading with the emotional moment? Was network television not blanketed for the final run up to primary day with video of an emotional, vulnerable, "human" Hillary Clinton desperately explaining how much she cares???

Is there really no correlation to the incredible amount of free media this moment received and the strong support she enjoyed among women?

Or am I just being cynical that the woman who has been in the national spotlight since 1991, not cracking once (so far as I can remember, but maybe there was something) just happened to show her human, feminine, vulnerable side the day before the New Hampshire primary (three hours prior to a series of already scheduled network anchor interviews) and four days after losing Iowa where she surprisingly didn't have enough appeal among women?


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