CNN Journalists Panel: Hillary Needs To Be More ‘Honest’ for Better Press

‘If you want to get the benefit of the doubt from the media, what you got to do is be honest’

CNN Journalists Panel: Hillary Needs To Be More 'Honest' For Better Press (NewsBusters)

On Wednesday's New Day, CNN's John King, along with National Journal's Ron Fournier and the AP's Julie Pace, offered Hillary Clinton some advice, after the potential 2016 presidential candidate told a friendly audience of journalists that she hoped for a "new relationship with the press." Fournier replied that "she...needs an intervention of folks who understand the media, and can explain to her, they're not your enemy. They're also not your friend. If you want to get the benefit of the doubt from the media, what you got to do is be honest. You got to be accessible."

King added that "if she's going to do this, it's going to have to be from her consistently." Pace wondered "what the message from the top is going to be. Is she going to be comfortable with her campaign putting out a little more detail – putting her out there more publicly? Are they going to revert back to, kind of, the old style from 2008? Things have changed so much since then. We saw that with this e-mail controversy – how quickly something can really spiral." 

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