In regards to the email scandal, both the news media and Clinton were to blame for their actions. While Clinton was no legally mandated to have a Department of State email address, she still should have used one to follow protocol of her predecessors. Also, when Clinton decided to give up 55,000 of her personal emails for review, her and her team were able to pick which emails went out to the public. While they may have been protecting classified information in doing this, it still made Clinton look suspect.

The media’s coverage in all of this was rather premature. Had the news media waited to create a story after they found exactly what Clinton was emailing about, perhaps they would have had a meatier story. The media also kept comparing Hillary’s actions to those of Condoleezza Rice who also used a personal email account to conduct business- but that was around 10 years ago, when technology was not in such high use. With that somewhat empty comparison, it seems the media was just looking for another way to slant the story in their favor.