The Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal involves no wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton, contends Vox’s Matthew Yglesias. So whose behavior has been scandalous? The media’s.

“Emailgate, like so many Clinton pseudo-scandals before it, is bullshit,” wrote Yglesias in a Michael Kinsley-esque Friday piece. “The real scandal here is the way a story that was at best of modest significance came to dominate the US presidential election -- overwhelming stories of much more importance, giving the American people a completely skewed impression of one of the two nominees, and creating space for the FBI to intervene in the election in favor of its apparently preferred candidate in a dangerous way.”

Yglesias complained that “network newscasts have, remarkably, dedicated more airtime to coverage of Clinton’s emails than to all policy issues combined,” adding that “cable news has been, if anything, worse, and many prestige outlets” -- notably, The New York Times -- “have joined the pileup.”

The “obsessive email coverage,” argued Yglesias, has meant that “the public is left totally unaware of the policy stakes in the election. Another [consequence] is that the constant vague recitations of the phrase ‘Clinton email scandal’ have firmly implanted the notion that there is something scandalous about anything involving Hillary Clinton and email, including her campaign manager getting hacked or the revelation that one of her aides sometimes checked mail on her husband’s computer.”

Yglesias sees a double whammy for Hillary: she gets treated unfairly, and Donald Trump benefits from it (bolding added):