Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the no-chit-chat podcast.

We'd like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is the war over

Trump spying.

I already talked about this a couple of podcasts ago about the filing from the Special Counsel

John Durham that makes it pretty clear that operatives who are being paid or working

with the Hillary Clinton campaign had spied on Donald Trump in various places around

the country.

So that's a big deal.

When it comes out, there's a lot of coverage of it, but there's not coverage of it everywhere.

So that's what I want to talk about today.

Anybody who has followed political journalism for more than about a minute and a half could

predict how some big outlets would cover the revelation that these operatives connected

to Hillary Clinton spied on the Trump campaign.

Once legacy media journalists saw the story reported on Fox News, and especially when they

saw former President Trump promoting it, they immediately thought, how can we knock this

down?

I mean, the first first first thought was, how can we knock this down?

Now normally when news breaks and remember that the spying information was contained

in a court filing by the Justice Department Special Counsel John Durham, so it was news.

So when news breaks, a news organization first reports the news normally.

Then after that, it might publish one or more analysis pieces, maybe reaction pieces,

follow up stories, but first they report the news.

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