Don’t Expect Robert Mueller’s Trump Report to Get the Starr Treatment

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With Special Counsel Robert Mueller expected to deliver his report on alleged Russian collusion as early as this week, it’s worth a look back at how the news media greeted the results of another presidential investigation two decades ago. Unlike today’s media depiction of Mueller as an authoritative, non-partisan fact-finder, when Independent Counsel Ken Starr delivered his report on President Bill Clinton in 1998, the press launched a campaign to discredit, demean, and dismiss both the inquiry and the investigator himself.