Yang received the least speaking time of any presidential candidate in the December debate, despite his polling numbers. That's part of a pattern.
In the last six months, Yang has been mentioned 98 times on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN; Klobuchar has gotten 149 mentions.
It's possible that some of the discrepancy between Klobuchar and Yang's speaking time in the debates could in part be due to how often other candidates referenced them , or how aggressively they vie for the moderators' attention, or push past allotted time limits. But it's the moderators' job to provide a fair playing field—which they are obviously failing at here.
Cillizza's arguments seem to depict journalists as quite an intellectually challenged crew. In reality, it's not that theywork to get a sense of a new candidate or to cover"radical" political ideas; it's that the news organizations they work for give them no incentive to—no conspiracy necessary, just an unhealthy bias toward the political establishment.
Democratic presidential candidates away the start of the Democratic presidential primary debate on December 19, 2019, in Los Angeles.
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