Trotter said there has always been good reason for the public to be wary of the mainstream media, and these revelations just validate that suspicion.
“Definitely take everything with a grain of salt,” she said. “Any of this breathless reporting of any of the candidates and what they say and what they do, they should understand there is a real effort behind the scenes to influence people’s votes.”
Trotter continued, “Regardless of what you think about the different candidates or which policies you favor, I think all voters should be aware they are not getting straight news. They are getting news with an agenda.”
Trotter said Sunday’s presidential debate is a clear example of media bias, where moderators Anderson Cooper of CNN and Martha Raddatz of ABC interjected to challenge Trump far more than when Clinton was speaking. But she said actions like those, by themselves, don’t prove collusion.
“It wouldn’t necessarily show there was an active effort to assist a certain candidate. You could just think, ‘Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz have their biases. It comes out in the way they do their jobs, but it’s maybe subconscious for them. They’re not actively doing it,'” Trotter said.
However, she said the lid is blown off that supposition when you see the New York Times agreeing to spike a Clinton quote in which she frets that the gay rights movement got results a lot faster than civil rights and the feminism movement.
“You can see through these emails that it’s not just subconscious bias, but it’s an active effort on the behalf of these favored candidates by the media elite,” she said.
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Trotter believes media figures would be wise to admit their mistakes and vow to do better instead of issuing denials like Brazile’s. Trotter urges people to email or tweet the reporters or editors involved and let them know their conduct was unacceptable. She said Americans must demand better.
“This should be unacceptable from a profession whose job it is to inform the democratic public, so that we can exercise our most cherished freedom to vote,” Trotter said.