Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?
Kevin Drum: Nightly News Takes a Dive on Issues This Year: "Hillary Clinton has talked plenty about issues in the conventional sense... (Live from the Journamalists' Self-Made Hell)
...speeches that cover specific policy proposals, with detail to back them up. Only Donald Trump has declined to do this. More broadly, both candidates have talked about issues. Trump talks all the time about trade, immigration, ISIS, and guns. Clinton talks about childcare, ISIS, health care, guns, and so forth.... The network news broadcasts just don't want to risk losing their audiences by forcing them to pay attention to such boring stuff.
