Chastising Matt Lauer who moderates an entertainment program - he's NOT a journalist

The morning after the forum, CNN's senior media and politics reporter, Dylan Byers, offered this sober and accurate assessment of Lauer's job:

“Political interviews, forums, town halls, debates, these are really big, significant deals. They’re especially big, significant deals given all that’s at stake in the 2016 election. You don’t send Matt Lauer to do a political reporter’s job. Look, in a debate, it might be fair to argue that you can let the two candidates fact-check each other. But when it comes to these one-on-one interviews, these forums, you have to step up and play that role. That onus is on you, and Matt Lauer didn’t do that. He certainly didn’t do that with Donald Trump. He didn’t do it on the Iraq War. He didn’t do it on a number of other issues and frankly, this criticism that he went a lot harder on Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, I think, is well founded.”

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/twitter-destroys-matt-lauer-his-moderating-nbcs-commander-chief-forum