The media seems to be representing the worst kind of speech: the running off at the mouth, anything said to get your attention kind of speech. When speech is about getting your attention, then thoughtfulness and balance and responsibility go out the window. We have evolved into an impulsive media with frenzy instead of calm and hype instead of facts. There is no place for rationality. My friend told me yesterday that she was listening, with her husband, to a news source that normally is internationally minded and fair, but instead they did a brief clip of Clinton, then lingered on a clip of Trump sounding reasonable, then followed with a Trump supporter. He got nine tenths of the time and all of it free. This bodes ill for the debates if the moderators are seduced by the lure of Trump's astounding comments. Everyone seems to love a news flash.
I guess the only alternative is to read speeches of both candidates in full. The interpretations are supremely suspect.
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