BROCK: The more serious problem is the manipulation of mainstream media by that right-wing media machine and that has potential to do the most damage obviously because they're reaching a lot more people, they're not just speaking to the converted. And I take particular issue, and we can get into this, with the way the right in the last six months has been using The New York Times, and The New York Times' willingness to be used to carry three stories on Hillary Clinton, all of which alleged some type of criminal misconduct on the front page, and all of those stories end up being false and wrong.
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What I'm trying to explain here, and particularly people who trust The New York Times, were brought up on it, read it, it's the gold standard, I mean we love The New York Times, I'm trying to show in that little passage some of the motivation here, because it's harder to understand. As I said, we know where the Koch brothers are coming from, they've got financial interests, they've got their ideology.
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Hillary Clinton is a very big target. There are careers at stake, there is money to be made. Other than, I suppose Donald Trump, the Clintons have always produced ratings, click-throughs, newspaper sales, books sales -- let's hope so -- And so, there's an incentive in The Times, it's financial, it's career interest, it's winning prizes, all that. So it's nothing unusual, but what is unusual is that for whatever reason they have not held themselves to the same standards that they do in other pieces with the Clinton coverage.
