Salon - "CNBC did ask substantive questions. That’s why Republicans are mad"

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7. Stop making excuses for Main Stream Media - They are Horrible

If you're talking about the moderators after the debate instead of the multitude of important issues facing the nation you've failed at moderating the debate. Period. Just because the GOP has fielded a bunch of clowns doesn't exclude the media from doing their job. I know it's real popular to claim how the candidates are deflecting and don't want to answer tough questions but the questions were loaded and stupid. Sure, it's fun to rag on the GOP candidates for whining but to ignore the piss poor job the media is doing is leading us down the path to idiocracy.

What are we talking about today? How the Republicans want to privatize SS? Destroy unions? Permanent war? Ban abortion? Etc etc etc? No. We're not talking about any of that. Why? Because CNBC was more interested working "clown" into their questions to Trump, bringing up snake oil products Carson was involved in, and goading participants into attacking each other.

The mainstream media has turned our political process into a reality TV show and people on the left fall for the bait just like the Republicans because the GOP is getting clowned....this time. Bread and circuses. Meanwhile no serious discussions on income inequality, police brutality, corporate welfare, etc.

Stop making excuses for and defending the mainstream media just because Republicans are whining about liberal bias. The media failed the Republicans, the Democrats, and the viewing public. They put on a clown show for ratings. Next time these celebrity news spokesmodels moderate a debate they should look for inspiration from real journalists like Cronkite or Murrow instead of some second rate Howard Stern sidekick yelling insults at a press conference.