We need a media that informs us on issues, not on the horse race. [View all]
Hillary is up. Hillary is down. Bush cuts his staff! Trump has a hat! Rubio drinks water! Rubio has more money than Bush! No, he has less!
What do these people believe in? What do they support? Apparently, we do not need to know! This is a serious problem with our democracy! At this point, we are probably choosing the winner of American Idol with more care than our president!
Sorry, but with this, I am not sure we can still call ourselves a democracy!
Sure, how much money a candidate has is important! How well they perform a few months before the first primary may be important! But history tells us that it is not THAT important! Otherwise, Kerry would not have been the nominee in 2004, McCain and Obama in 2008, or Romney in 2012.
Covering the hearings was useful because it informs us about Hillary Clinton, and shows she is a formidable candidate and will be if she wins a formidable president. She may not be my favorite candidate, but I have no doubt she would be solid.
But I can live without the different reports of lazy and incompetent reporters from Bloomberg (including, but not limited to Halperin and Weigel), the Washington Post, or the Times about who is up and who is down, and a little more about character and positions on issues. Right now, I have very little idea about what the various candidates are offering, and I follow politics. How are people supposed to know, and if they do not know, what does their vote on polls mean anyway!
Sorry for the rant, but I think the coverage of this election is a problem for democracy!
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