I just had a blinding realization.
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This afternoon I was watching a CNN discussion of Trump and Clinton, led by Poppy Harlow. Trump spokesman Boris Epshteyn (sp?) and Ana Marie Cox, currently a political reporter for MTV, were supposed to "debate". And Ana Marie started by pointing out that CNN wanted a debate of issues, but brought together an official Trump spokesman with an unbiased reporter who didn't even support Hillary in the primaries. Why, asked Cox, did they not include an actual Clinton spokesperson, someone who had the facts at hand to actually defend Clinton and the Democrats?
And then it hit me -- CNN is inadvertently buying into the Republican meme that the press is liberal. Over and over again, CNN (and MSNBC as well) have some sort of official Republican (a campaign spokesperson, a current or former Republican office holder) versus some sort of journalist (television, print or Internet-based). Where are the Democrats, the Clinton surrogates, the Congressmen and mayors and Senators and governors?
How do we stop this? Are there simply not enough surrogates for Hillary Clinton? Or are the television news shows too lazy to find a Democrat to talk with the too-visible and too-available Trump surrogates?
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