That’s what stands out about the emails, the cosy relationship to dictating the press.
Via Mediaite:
An email obtained by a Gawker via FOIA request details how a reporter for The Atlantic agreed to a write an article that was tailored to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s specific demands.
In 2009, The Atlantic‘s Marc Ambinder emailed Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines asking for the text of a foreign policy speech Clinton was set to deliver later that day. “On two conditions,” Reines replied.
Ambinder agreed to the conditions before hearing what they were, responding “Ok.” Reines then laid out the conditions (“three, actually”):