<h1>The Election Was Not Hacked</h1>

As Jon Gabriel so succentily put it:

Despite the histrionic claims of the press, the election was not hacked. The Democratic National Committee’s lousy IT security allowed someone to access their emails which were then leaked. Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta fell for an age-old phishing scam that was as believable as getting millions of dollars from a Nigerian prince. Using the spotty media understanding of cybersecurity, they can claim that the DNC and Hillary’s campaign were “hacked,” but the election decisively was not. And the press knows it.

It is a distinction with a diffrence.  I'm sure if you question the press on it they will say they meant "the election" inclusive of the voting and all the campaigning that lead up to the vote.

But that's not how most people view it. They separate the election as the actual voting and tallying of the votes from the campaigns leading up to the election as separate entities altogether.

I highly doubt the press is ignorant of this separation.  It is a deliberate disinformation campaign on the part of some outlets (the New York Times, Washington Post)  and just plain laziness on the part of others (Fox News).

And it is the primary reason why most people think the purveyors of fake news are the mainstream media itself.