She is the best journalist on TV now, plus she has integrity. (In her early years, sometimes she would leave out some of the facts, and many people boycotted her, including me, but she has grown & she is straight up now, IMO.) However, though she was not as intense as some, earlier on, even in the general election, she did attack or give a podium for others to attack Hillary. For example, she gave KellyAnne Conway an entire hour, very friendly, with almost no push back, to boast about DT and attack Hillary.
She pulled back more quickly than some with her negative reporting. (I won't even go in to or criticize her for the primaries, but a lot of damage was done then, so much that many times, I couldn't even watch her, and I like Bernie.)
I am not going to focus on her, because she was the least of those on TV that degraded Hillary, while giving DT free reign. Also, once she got it, that the media were going to cause DT to be elected (it was one of many factors), she rolled up her sleeves and went to work. ..but it could have been earlier. In the last several weeks before the election, she was 100pc on top of everything.
On election night, I was watching Maddow, Matthews & others report, as the telling results were coming in. They were fighting back tears, as most of us were. I and others were thinking and saying, but you did your part, especially Matthews. I believe RM would even say that.
Matthews was much worse and he went on for longer into the general election, often attaking Hillary. I'm not saying Hillary did everything right, but it was about ratings and giving audiences red meat, IMO. In the hour immediately before one of the debates (I think it was the second one?), he gave KellyAnne a full hour, in which he glowed at everything she said, to set up the debate by degrading Hillary and promoting DT.
CNN was even worse, with their awful panels. The false Equivalency of giving someone like Kayleigh Repub airhead equal time to someone like David Gergan or Paul Begala, who have had years of experience, was
disgusting . This has been discussed quite a bit in the media, on both CNN & MSNBC.
I got and still do get most of my news from print...NYT, Washington Post, New Yorker, and others. However, most of America gets their news from TV. The false equivalency of the TV media, pretty much all of it, of giving equal time and criticism to Hillary and DT was a factor that caused a lot of middle America to not support Hillary, either by not voting or voting for a 3rd party or DT.
With DT, there were so many breaking scandles that the media could hardly keep up with them, but for Hillary's time, it was the emails, the emails.
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