[pmyjavec]

There is a difference between quality, informative journalism which allows people to make up there own mind and endless character assassinating, speculative tabloid smut; However, I trust you know that.

The reason I used Trump as an example is because from what I've read and seen of Clinton she doesn't seem much better but is largely ignored in some media outlets in Australia.

[mcv]

What have you read and seen about Clinton? Because the bad things she actually has done are not remotely in the same league as those of Trump. She gets accused a lot by conservatives who clearly have a chip on their shoulder about her, but none of those accusations turned up anything serious. There have been 7 congressional hearing on Benghazi to try to bring her down, but nobody could find anything she's actually done wrong. The email server was certainly sloppy, but hardly worse than anything other government officials have gotten away with.

The things Trump has done wrong, like the Trump University scam, not paying his contractors, opportunistic bankruptcies to get out of paying his debts, while he still gets to keep his own profits, and the rape case with a 13 year old victim against him, get barely any attention at all. Most of the attention he gets, is about things that he personally has actually said. And that's already bad enough for most people.

[pmyjavec]

With those candidates, there is no "lesser of two evils" in my opinion, though the media has us believe so. That is my point. My point is about media bias and, it's rampant.

[mcv]

If there's no "lesser of two evils", it's because Clinton is not really evil. She gets lots of bad press, but all things considered, she's actually pretty good. Certainly by the unfortunately low political standards of US.

I'd certainly like the US to elect more progressive politicians, but that seems unlikely to happen. In any case, Trump is sub-par even for US standards. He should be completely unacceptable, and fortunately even people of his own party are finally starting to see that.

[jacalata]

Well, yea. One of them is an actual good candidate and the other is Trump. The media is just trying to make them look competitive so people keep reading stories on the election.