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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are statistically the least-liked candidates in U.S. history Volume LXXXV
November 8, 2016
Issue 11
Weekly Student Newspaper
The Media’s Obligation to the Truth An interview with Times Union Editor Rex Smith
By KATE PIERCE News Editor With the election drawing to a close, reflections have already been made on the media coverage of each campaign. Rex Smith, editor of the Albany Times Union, has reflected on the claim of Donald Trump that the media is biased against him. “Textual studies of journalism reveal that there’s a lot more bias on the part of news consumers than there is on the part of the mainstream media,” Smith said. “There is significant effort to make the news fair when we
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present it.” This does not necessarily mean that when there is news coverage of a candidate doing or saying something embarrassing that there must be coverage of other candidates in the same light to try and create some sort of balance. “That’s not what fair is,” Smith said. “Fair is reporting accurately what went on—fair is reporting the truth. When candidates lie, our obligation is not just to report their lies, but to reveal to voters what is truth.” However, political candidates have complained about media bias for decades. Most recent is
the case of Donald Trump, the Republican candidate in the presidential election. “This election is being rigged by the media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges, and outright lies, in order to elect Crooked Hillary!” tweeted Trump in October. “In this campaign, the fact is the presidential race has seen one candidate lie more than the other—and that is Donald Trump,” said Smith. “So, he complains that the media is biased against him, but that is because he has Continued on Page A3
What the People Want Election 2016
By JOURNALISM 1
One need that voter Elaina Brown wants met by the next U.S. president seems pretty simple–she wants to feel safe. Brown, from Altamont, New York, identifies with the LGBT community and said the Orlando nightclub shootings earlier this year helped shape her hope for the presidency. Brown was among more than a dozen individuals interviewed last week on campus and around the Pine Hills neighborhood for The Chronicle. She said she is concerned about the anger the current election cycle has yielded and she wonders about
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the outcome. Gun regulation matters too, to Carlisa Stover, an employee at The College of Saint Rose. After that the new president needs to address the economy, she said. What voters want from the next President varies greatly – they want more and better jobs, more civil discourse, better access to education, improved race relations and a stronger immigration policy. More affordable higher education and equal pay for women and men both topped the list of priorities for Briana De La Cruz, a 20-year-old college student. Lowering the cost of college also
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leads the presidential to-do list for Macy Snider, a college student who was heading to the Madison Avenue Price Chopper last Monday. Instructional technologist Abi Johnson wants women’s health issues addressed by the next administration. “I want to vote for a president because I care about what they will do,” said Johnson, who works at The College of Saint Rose. Immigration is an important issue for Saint Rose sophomore Whitney Jones, who identifies as Jamaican. Irish and African American. Data taken from Chronicle Poll of Saint Rose Students
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