Hillary Clinton's staff told reporters what to write, and they complied.

That's what Gawker's J.K. Trotter is reporting.

Here are highlighted screengrabs from Gawker of an email exchange that occurred when The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder asked Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines for a copy of a speech Clinton would deliver later that day. Reines was happy to comply, with conditions:



Trotter reports:

The emails in question, which were exchanged by Ambinder, a former Atlantic contributing editor, and Philippe Reines, Clinton's notoriously combative spokesman and consigliere, turned up thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request we filed in 2012 (and which we are currently suing the State Department over).

In an email to Gawker, Ambinder said, "It made me uncomfortable then, and it makes me uncomfortable today. And when I look at that email record, it is a reminder to me of why I moved away from all that. The Atlantic, to their credit, never pushed me to do that, to turn into a scoop factory. In the fullness of time, any journalist or writer who is confronted by the prospect, or gets in the situation where their journalism begins to feel transactional, should listen to their gut feeling and push away from that."

Read more details and Ambinder's full statement at Gawker.