Hillary Clinton: Political journalists "can't bear to face their own role in helping elect Trump"

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53. So what can Democrats do to overcome this?

That's not a rhetorical question, by the way.

Personally I'm of the opinion that heaping blame on the media is a fool's errand. It makes me think of all the sports fans who blame the refs when they lose. It avoids responsibility for one's own mistakes -- which Hillary Clinton does not do, by the way -- and it suggests that there is nothing that can be done so long as there is a powerful media 'bias' against us.

Sorry, I'm not buying.

There is OF COURSE media bias. And candidates must be shrewd enough to overcome it, or use it to their advantage. So, again: how do we recognize and nominate candidates who are savvy enough to use the corporate media (which, as has been demonstrated repeatedly, only cares about eyeballs, ears, clicks, etc.) to engage potential supporters and voters, and not simply be used by the media as a pinata?