What was that a commercial for ? <| sep |> The porn watcher is not having sex with the porn stars . The restaurant customer is eating your food . <| sep |> Could you have called the authorities at the time ? <| sep |> Michael Chong is actually electable . He would probably be the CDC ' s best chance next time around . <| sep |> this is going to be a car commercial right ? <| sep |> You ' re taking yourself too seriously . You ' re a commercial . <| sep |> Hasn ' t slowed my hair loss . <| sep |> That is beautiful . Fuck Sean Murray ! p . s . i wasn ' t taken in by this hipsterwhisperer , it was obvious from the kickstarter and first presentation this game was nothing but vaporware . Still , fuck that dickweed for doing it . <| sep |> Three points 1 . Uncensored , unbiased reporting of candidates ' public positions is fundamentally necessary for an informed electorate . 2 . The news media was not neutral during this campaign there were substantially more negative stories and factchecks on Trump than Hillary . 3 . Even despite the negative reporting , Trump engaged with the media much much more than Hillary . It was her job to put herself out there and provide a viable response and refutation to Trump , but she simply didn ' t . Are you suggesting that it ' s the media ' s sole duty to censor a presidential candidate ' s words or to handhold voters into value judgments ? That ' s the job of pundits , not reporters . Should the entire news media be punditry ? I think there is fundamental value to reporting the public claims by presidential candidates completely unedited and uncensored . I , and the rest of America , deserve the opportunity to make our own judgments based on what the candidates say instead of what a biased pundit tells us . And in actuality the media was not neutral during this election , and often pointed out Trump ' s lies while simultaneously burying legitimate critiques of Hillary . This might be partially the result of Trump ' s willingness to engage with the media thus giving them more fodder to dissect . See also The Intercept discussing this phenomenon . u n r e l e n t i n g p u n d i t l e d e f f o r t t o d e l e g i t i m i z e a l l n e g a t i v e r e p o r t i n g a bouthillaryclintonHillary had plenty of opportunity to try to sell her complex policy plans , and plenty of opportunity to point out the lack of detail within Trump ' s . But she never seemed willingable to actively debate rather than recite committeedeveloped talking points . She also didn ' t engage with journalists anywhere near as often as Trump instead she spent substantial time having softball interviews with her supporters . It was Hillary ' s job to compellingly and convincingly deconstruct Trump ' s absurdity . Instead she sat back in smug detachment thinking she was watching a political train wreck . Her inaction and inability to engage with the American electorate doomed her no reasonable voter thought that MAGA was the equivalent of a detailed policy plan , and no member of the media made that equivalence either . Washington Post See article for charts of media appearances fixwp 20160506 d o n a l d t r u m p s a n d h i l l a r y c l i n t o n s v a s t l y d i f f e r e n t numberofmediainterviewsin 2 charts We ask every weekend for Secretary Clinton , Chris Wallace , the host of Fox News Sunday , told me last month of his longstanding effort to get Clinton on his show . They said to us today April 20 that this week isn ' t going to work , but let ' s be in touch for next week . We ' ll keep trying . And at a certain point , if she continues to resist , we ' ll raise the burner on the stove . MSNBC only got Clinton to appear on Morning Joe by refusing to interview any of her surrogates until she agreed to join the program herself . . Clinton can continue to restrict access if she chooses that ' s her prerogative . But she ' s ceding a huge airtime advantage to Trump in some key time slots . Think about this Clinton has appeared exactly twice on cable news morning shows since the start of primary voting Feb . 1 . She ' s basically invisible to political junkies who start their days on CNN , MSNBC and Fox News , and she ' s rarely setting the news agenda for the day ahead using those forums . Based on her response to Cooper , Clinton seems to be betting that Trump ' s onallthetime strategy will backfire amid heightened scrutiny . But considering the way he batted away questions and controversies on the way to the GOP nomination , that ' s a gamble . NPR h i l l a r y c l i n t o n s a p pearanceswiththenewsmedia These interviews were not , however , all conducted by reporters or journalists . Nearly a fifth of the total , or 65 interviews , were conducted by people NPR did not classify as journalists or in settings that would be considered journalistic , even using expansive definitions .