The 2016 Presidential election has been dubbed by many as a choice between “the lesser of two evils” and . In response to discontent with the available choices, disgust with political corruption, and a feeling that their vote doesn’t matter, many Americans question why they should bother to register to vote in the first place.

Presidential debates do as much to illustrate corporate media priorities as they do to showcase the candidates. They provide a snapshot into what the media, in this case represented by NBC’s Lester Holt, prioritizes as issues worthy of discussion.

Compare 2016 presidential candidate positions with a side-by-side comparison between candidates on key issues.

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — The first presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump certainly kept fact-checkers busy. The less-than-accurate claims included: Clinton wrongly said that the only tax returns that anyone has seen from Trump “showed he didn’t pay any federal income tax.” Trump paid federal taxes in three out of five years in the 1970s.