Monday night's presidential debate at Hofstra University, billed unironically and perhaps appropriately as the debate of the century, was also talked up as a chance for journalism to (belatedly) shine. After a year of endless criticism, much of it well-deserved, the press's reputation reached a nadir with Matt Lauer's pathetically soft interview of Donald Trump at a recent "commander-in-chief' forum. Would moderator Lester Holt, like Lauer an NBC newsman, challenge the candidates more forthrightly?  Read more