Media deception Media Bias

The third and final debate is his­to­ry and the only talk­ing points the media could get out of it was the unfair and unbal­anced ques­tion that Chris Wal­lace asked.

The ques­tion was unfair because it did not include a stan­dard of jour­nal­is­tic excel­lence.

Here is the ques­tion,

Your run­ning mate Gov­er­nor Pence, He and You, (his words) will absolute­ly accept, the results of this elec­tion, Today your daugh­ter Ivan­ka said the same thing, I want to ask you here on this stage tonight, do you make the same com­mit­ment, that you will absolute­ly (sir) that you will absolute­ly accept the results of this elec­tion. 

First what is the basis for this question?

How does it benefit the American People?

How was this a fair question?

First of all it makes no sense, to bring per­son­al ref­er­ences into a con­ver­sa­tion as if it were a valid ques­tion…

Sec­ond it serves no pur­pose, it is not wor­thy of a jour­nal­ist stan­dard.

I applaud Mr Trump for choos­ing Not to answer the ques­tion because it was an unfair “Gotcha” Ques­tion.

I just won­der what the media think they have got?

If you remove the per­son­al ref­er­ences, the Vice Pres­i­den­tial Run­ning mate and his daugh­ter from this ques­tion how then do you ask the ques­tion?

If you can­not nor­mal­ly ask a ques­tion in a debate for­mat then that ques­tion is wrong and is below the stan­dard of jour­nal­ist accept­abil­i­ty.

That is what cre­ates the poor per­for­mance of Mr Wal­lace.

Now when you com­pare the job of mod­er­at­ing a debate with the much poor­er per­for­mances of the oth­er debate mod­er­a­tors then nat­u­ral­ly Mr. Wal­lace came out good, with the excep­tion of a few lead­ing ques­tions and a few unac­cept­able ques­tions which were not in turn asked of Hillary Clin­ton.

If your going to bring up a ques­tion that is unproven and has no fac­tu­al basis then you have a real prob­lem with the Amer­i­can Vot­ing Pub­lic.

Mr. Wal­lace per­formed poor­ly because he did not ask ques­tions of the same sort to Hillary Clin­ton.

While he did bring up some ques­tions that were bet­ter than any oth­er mod­er­a­tor to date, he did not equal­ly ques­tion Hillary with the same kinds of ques­tion­able ques­tions, which cer­tain­ly were avail­able to Mr. Wal­lace, yet he choose not to pur­sue those ques­tions.

An exam­ple of an equal ques­tion to Hillary would have been some­thing like, “Your hus­band said that Oba­ma care was the “Cra­zi­est thing in the world” his words, as pres­i­dent what would you do to put an end to amer­i­cans loos­ing their doc­tors and loos­ing their health care?

But he did not do that did he?

Lat­er he choose to bring up unre­lat­ed and unproven accu­sa­tions con­cern­ing a civ­il mat­ter in flori­da.

There are plen­ty of oth­er issues that he could have brought up that would have equal­ly embar­rassed Hillary but yet he did not do that.

Why is that?

I saw a lot of praise for Mr. Wal­lace, most­ly because he was not as biased as the oth­er mod­er­a­tors how­ev­er that is not the same thing as a great per­for­mance as an objec­tive reporter and mod­er­a­tor.

Mr. Wal­lace did not mod­er­ate the debate in a fair and bal­anced way.

For that he failed.