Our exasperating press corps

Our press corps still has not engaged in the self-assessment on what led to its breakdown in 2016.  They are busy congratulating themselves over their fine reporting, based to a great extent on people willing to leak bad behavior from a troubled government.  Yet, the information the NYT recently uncovered about the Trump clan's financial shenanigans was there for discovery long before the press corps underestimated Trump.  And it seems, just seems, that much of the Russian activity was obtainable through good investigative reporting.

Now the march of polls, accompanied by speculation, will be ours to endure until November 6.  We are supposed to be moved by this reporting coming from the very people that got it so wrong in 2016.  Please, don't speculate.  You risk influencing citizens regarding their voting intentions.  And, how much money is raised merits far less airtime than issues reporting and analysis and fact-checking.

Why not devote as much energy as possible to informing citizens and revealing voter suppression actions.  That's not as appealing to you as poll hawking, but we can actually wait for the results..

One more item - clean up your sloppy language.  Omit the "kind of"s and "sort of"s from your discourse.  And, once and for all, certain officials do NOT serve "at the pleasure of the President".  That's a term for monarchs and dictators.  They serve "under the sole authority of the President"
Gheesh