Real Journalism, Or "Reality" News?

If anyone watched last night's Commander-in-Chief-Forum, and came away with a more 

favorable opinion of Donald Trump, I don't know what you were 

watching, because it certainly wasn't that. To me, he just 

reinforced my opinion that he's so unfit for the 

office of president, that I can't even think of a phrase that would 

describe it, 'never seen a person unfitter?' 

While they both repeatedly attacked the other, 

and had been warned not to, her attacks were on his fitness to be 

president, while his often strained credibility, claiming that 

because she was Secretary of State in the 

Obama administration, it was somehow her fault about some of his 

more controversial decisions. He blamed an integrated military for 

instances of rape. Hey, knuckle-dragger, wake up and 

smell the new millennium. People are more enlightened now, 

supposedly, although with all your support, that theory in quickly 

disappearing. And, he refused to disavow a statement he made 

praising the Russian President Putin, in which he gave him an 'A", 

because he's strong. Yeah, he's strong, alright, a strongman! In this 

alternative reality he and his supporters appear to be living in, up 

is down, back is white, and previously-campaign-killing statements 

such as these are popularity-increasing.

I remember the 2008 election, which the media portrayed right up 

to election day as 'a squeaker'--it wasn't, and I remember the 2012 

election, in which polls indicated a Romney triumph, joyfully 

parroted by the media, he didn't win, in fact, it wasn't really 

that close. So sure of a Romney win were some networks, when the 

election was called for President Obama, one Fox News host 

actually told a reporter to 'check again, 

because that can't be right.' Makes one wonder if anything you see 

and hear in the news reflects reality, or the networks' desires? Now, 

I might be full of it, and I'll wake up one morning to a President 

Trump world, but I'm just wondering if we're getting the truth?

And, it sure looks to me like the networks are doing their best to 

keep it a close race, so you'll stay tuned in, all day, every day, by 

bringing up every perceived weakness of 

Clinton, and hammering in like a nail of the damned. Guests call 

her 'dishonest' without being questioned as to why. The statement's 

just left hanging there, so that the viewer thinks 'well, it must be 

true!'

Are the networks reporting facts or are they trying to influence the 

race? The answer to that question could signal the end of real 

journalism, and the start of "reality" news.