To the Editor:
Re “Clinton’s Focus in 3rd Debate Is G.O.P. Field” (front page, Dec. 20):
Your article goes on for eight paragraphs reporting on what Hillary Clinton said, with a mention of her “deflecting persistent attacks” from Senator Bernie Sanders and former Gov. Martin O’Malley, but ignoring their substantive statements until further down.
Between the Saturday night scheduling guaranteeing a low viewership, and your account, there will be many who will believe that Mrs. Clinton overwhelmingly dominated the debate, that Bernie Sanders’s statements were inconsequential and that Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy is inevitable.
In a media environment in which Donald Trump gets 23 times the coverage that Mr. Sanders gets, according to the Tyndall Report, even though Mr. Sanders beats Mr. Trump in a head-to-head matchup in a recent Quinnipiac poll, having the newspaper of record play down Mr. Sanders’s viability as a candidate does a disservice to our democracy.
RICHARD BARBER
Brooklyn
Note from KBJ: Democrats face a choice between a harridan and the crazy uncle in the attic.
