When the Journalist Becomes the Story.

The American media is missing it.
Instead of trying to determine why Donald Trump has caught fire with the voters, they are still busy trying to smear him and label his supporters haters and bigots. Still.
I support candidate Trump's position not to be a pawn in the latest entertainment debate.
At one time, candidates were controlled by media exposure, and the entertainment/political/news industry had the upper hand. But now?
There are more than enough media outlets for a presidential candidate to put his voice out there. The media needs content more than content needs placement in this slot or that.
Who is Megyn Kelly, how many people have heard of her before she became international news following an earlier debate, when she herself becamc the big news story?
I don't think Donald Trump was referring to the woman's menstrual cycle when he criticized her campaign coverage and questioning of him. I don't think she was unprofessional, just amateur. With all the important issues out there, only a little mind would care about Donald Trump's reputation with women.
Women who vote a pet issue are free to make up their own minds without wasting serious debate time that is better spent discussing bigger issues of the day: wars, economy, tax code, immigration policy.

I hope Donald Trump's campaign sticks to the idea of not appearing as entertainment fodder at the debate. If we want the system changed, the feeder (or scavenger) industries need to be tamed too. No more artificiality. You want to play like that, the good candidates will walk and take their campaign discussions with them. Voters will seek them out.

Everyone who wants to tune into the Republican presidential debate to watch Ms. Megyn Kelly remains free to do so. I wish she would have put the job first, and stepped aside. She's become too much the story, and there really are important issues that need asking about, not this junior high school boys v. girls environment we've got going in the black v. white mentality the media is trying to create in our country today. That's not diversity. Assimilation is, honestly. There's no denying the spices brought to the stew, even if they are subsumed into the whole, and not called out individually, as Megyn Kelly has become: a Spice Girl to enliven the Republican debate. You don't have to consume that though, if you just want a simple nourishing stew palatable to all.

On her program Tuesday night, Ms. Kelly observed that “what’s interesting here is Trump is not used to not controlling things, as the chief executive of a large organization.”

“But the truth is, he doesn’t get to control the media,” she added.

Ms. Kelly..., in the first presidential primary debate, ...questioned him about his past comments allegedly denigrating women. Afterward, he suggested that Ms. Kelly had been angry at him.

Where you going? What you looking for?
You know those boys don't want to play
no more with you... It's true.

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ADDED: The reason wise American media people fear Donald Trump's candidacy? Because they understand how electable he is. David Brooks this weekend made a comment that he just does not see Donald Trump in the White House, taking the job that once belonged to Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and Kennedy.

But he forgets Jackson!

(and more importantly, more recent government executives: Gov. Jesse Ventura in Minnesota and Arnold Schwarzenegger in California. It's very do-able in reality.)

Workers have been displaced, the world is coping with change, and Americans are not immune. It's not entertainment, really. It's the news of what happens when the self-declared best and brightest are plotting strategies, making promises, and predicting outcomes while life is marching on, outside of their bubbles.

You'd think curious media minds would be trying to understand it, at least.