Who's the Boss?

(Fox News) - Planted questions apparently are not the only way the Hillary Clinton campaign has sought to influence media coverage. Michael Crowley writes in The New Republic magazine that the Clinton campaign uses frequent rebukes, late-night complaint phone calls and the withholding of access as tools to control reporters.

Crowley writes — "Even seasoned political journalists describe reporting on Hillary as a torturous experience... Privately, they recount excruciating battles to secure basic facts. Innocent queries are met with deep suspicion. Only surgically precise questioning yields relevant answers.

"Despite all the grumbling, however, the press has showered Hillary with strikingly positive coverage. 'It's one of the few times I've seen journalists respect someone for beating the hell out of them,' says a veteran Democratic media operative."