I wonder what Bob Winkle and Dick Hoover would be thinking?

What’s that they say about people who live in glass houses should not it throw stones?

It’s been interesting the past several days to watch once again the media coverage of Donald Trump’s income tax issue.

For me, it’s what they cover, and why. But more importantly from this vantage point is what is so often left out.

While the current “scandal” has moved off the front page and out of the lead in most newscasts — displaced by Hurricane Matthew — it should only be a matter time before something else surfaces in an especially ravenous news cycle.

It’s not at all difficult for a day to go by without another self-inflicted wound by Trump. But it doesn’t hurt to have the sharks in the media always looking for some blood in the water.

If I were not cynical, and know how much of today’s media loves to find any and all things wrong with a Republican candidate, I’d wonder why they have not asked the same questions of Hillary Clinton? Especially when her leading character flaw is telling the truth.

The curiosity gene that was supposed to be implanted in journalism school is mysteriously missing with much of the press pool these days.

And Clinton is all the better off because of it.

This paper makes it a point that we never publish a letter to the editor without the person submitting it providing a name and contact info. We also do not use unnamed and anonymous sources.

Yet the New York Times launched this latest attack when Susanne Craig, a New York Times Metro reporter, received a manila envelope, complete with a New York City postmark and a Trump Tower return address that had portions from Donald Trump’s 1995 state tax filings.

Craig has no idea who sent them, but the Times, a so-called paragon of journalism, decided to make this front page — and national — news.

Past history would point out it being no accident that those with an ”R” associated with their name receive special treatment, writes Jim Geraghty of National Review.

George W. Bush’s Yale transcripts were leaked to The New Yorker in 1999 he writes. Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. “Joe the Plumber,” had private info leaked by an Ohio state official and in 2011, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry had his college transcripts provided to the Huffington Post.

But back to throwing stones inside the crystal palaces in which Clinton lives.

While she is out on the campaign trail vilifying Trump for taking money out of every government program under the sun — and while the media did the same for over a week — look what was discovered.

Both Clinton and the Times engaged in the same “tax dodge” they gleefully accuse Trump of orchestrating.

Page 17 of the recently released 2015 federal tax returns from “William J. Clinton & Hillary Rodham Clinton,” reported a “Long-term capital loss carryover of $699,540.” Sure, it’s not the near $1 billion Trump claimed 21 years ago, but not bad for the woman who magically turned $1,000 into $100,000 in the cattle futures deal back in 1978 in Arkansas.

While the $700,000 in write-offs is among the most notable when it comes to the Clintons, there was one a bit more strange. According to a 1993 Washington Post story, in their 1986 return, while Bill Clinton was serving his final term as Arkansas governor, he claimed $555 in donations in underwear — used, but hopefully laundered no less — to the Salvation Army.

Perhaps of all the hypocrites playing this game it is the Times, which in 2014 received a tax refund of $3.6 million according to a Jan. 2014 article in Forbes Magazine. This despite a pre-tax profit of nearly $30 million.

The saddest thing is that this is what Clinton, and her media PAC, thinks is important — ancient tax returns and over-the-hill beauty queens — is not what troubles the nation.

According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans list the tepid economy, immigration, healthcare’s ever-increasing premiums, defense and education as their main concerns.

I wonder just what the old-fashioned guys who taught me their craft — Bob Winkle, my original journalism teacher at Spokane Falls Community College 44 years ago, and later, Dick Hoover at Eastern Washington University — might think about the state of the business if they were alive today?

I love working in this profession, but I cringe at what I see disguised as journalism these days.

Paul Delaney can be reached at [email protected].