Hillary Clinton Press Secretary Brian Fallon told CNN’s Brian Stelter over the weekend that part of the campaign’s strategy in the general election will be “to continue to do earned media opportunities with local TV affiliates and local radio outlets.” Clinton will be “very attentive” to local issues as she has in the primaries, he said. The remarks come at the 2:35 minute mark in this clip from Reliable Sources.
News organizations wonder how to avoid a lopsided view of the election race as Donald Trump seems to relish airtime, while Hillary Clinton does not.
Hillary Clinton is turning her endorsements from the New York Daily News and the New York Times into a television commercial that will begin airing Friday in New York City across the five boroughs.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ broadcast expenditures top those of competitor Hillary Clinton, who has spent $52.5 million. That said, the amount spent on TV and radio by pro-Hillary PACs and advocacy groups ($64.7 million) far outpaces the amount spent on TV and radio by pro-Bernie PACs and advocacy groups ($471,539).
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Look for Hillary Clinton ads to start appearing on WJZ and WBAL Wednesday or Thursday. The Democratic frontrunner’s campaign bought airtime Tuesday on the two top-rated Baltimore stations for an ad that is expected to show the candidate’s relationship to the African-American community.
The combined spending on TV and radio by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and pro-Hillary PACs has been trailing the combined spending on TV and radio by Bernie Sanders and pro-Bernie PACs. But pro-Hillary PAC ad spending has since surged — from a total to date last time of $1.6 million to a new total to date this time of $11.5 million.
At least 18 national media outlets have female reporters on the Hillary Clinton beat, across print, online, radio and TV, according to a Politico survey. Some, such as NBC, have as many as three. Local outlets in Iowa and New Hampshire have female reporters on Clinton, as well. No one can remember a political press corps this heavily female.
A report by watchdog Andrew Tyndall shows ABC News, CBS News and NBC News have spend just as much time — 83 minutes — on Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal as they have on her candidacy — 82 minutes. The calculations stem from the weekday nightly news broadcasts on campaign 2016 from the start of the year through Sept. 18.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s campaign will air its first television ads this week in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. Clinton’s campaign will air two 60-second biographical spots starting Tuesday: one that focuses on her mother’s childhood and another highlighting Clinton’s many titles throughout her life.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, comes a day after Hillary Clinton broke her silence about her use of a private email account while secretary of state. The FOIA requests and lawsuit seek materials related to her public and private calendars, correspondence involving longtime aides likely to play key roles in her expected campaign for president, and Clinton-related emails about the Osama bin Laden raid and National Security Agency surveillance practices.
On the same day that CNN announced it’s not going forward on its Hillary Clinton project, NBC has decided to scrap its miniseries.
The conservative-leaning cable news channel was reportedly going to produce a miniseries on Clinton for NBC, but a source at Fox says the negotiation fell apart over deal points. The Republican National Committee today voted to ban CNN and NBC from hosting Republican presidential primary debates in 2016 in retaliation for their plans to air the Clinton programming.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus calls the programs political ads “masquerading” as unbiased productions. He vows not to partner with the networks on GOP debates if they don’t pull the programs.
