You can understand Chuck. Soviet papers didn't want to report on Chernobyl because they didn't want to be shot. Chuck Todd didn't want to report on Hillary's unpopularity because he didn't want to end up on a 3 AM infomercial peddling shoes made out of cardboard and old lace.
Nobody shoots messengers like totalitarian regimes. So it's just easier to tell them what they want to hear while they're going off the cliff.
NBC’s Chuck Todd confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton was in the heartland due to the fear of appearing “sexist.”
What’s more, he admitted, the mainstream media failed to “tell the stories of all Americans.”
“Where I think political correctness got in the way of what we all knew as reporters and didn’t fully deliver was how hated the Clintons were in the heartland,” the “Meet the Press” host admitted Thursday to former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer in a interview for the “1947” podcast.
“And I think it was a fear of, ‘Oh, is it going to look like it’s sexist, anti-woman if we say that?’” he added, pointing out that on the hustings he saw numerous “Hillary for Prison” signs adorning the front yards of rural America.
“If we sort of were straight-up honest and blunt about hey do we understand the level of hatred that’s out there and you know, all the Hillary for Prison signs that are out there, we certainly would have at least made the viewer know, hey, you know, she’s not well-liked in some places in this country in ways that’s times 10 when it comes to Trump,” he said.
But there was no percentage in that. Reporting on things that shouldn't be reported on is dangerous. Just ask Bob Woodward when he mentioned pressure from the Obama White House. Or the New York Times briefly reporting on Hillary. There are any number of examples.
It was easier to maintain the echo chamber that Hillary was a sure winner. And this is how the echoes in the chamber were broadcast and how the chamber was built.