Are presidential debate moderators an issue?

In Michelle Malkin's article titled "Debate Depressive Disorder", she talks about the supposed unfair placing of biased journalists as moderators in the presidential debates. She seems to write this blog post with a mostly conservative, republican audience in mind. In the article, she criticizes the choices that the Commission on Presidential Debates makes in choosing mostly left leaning journalists, according to her. She calls to attention the vice president debate in 2008 where PBS anchor Gwen Ifill served as moderator, and who Malkin confirms is a liberal because of Ifill's praising of President Obama's campaign. Malkin then goes on to parallel that race to the most recent where she criticizes the moderator once more for being liberal biased. After a whole page of singling out a few other liberal moderators she concludes that journalists and other members of the media have contributed a large sum of money to Hillary Clinton's campaign. In the end, her only message is directed to the members of the press, and calls for more honesty in the debates.

Though Malkin's intentions seem to be in the right place, it does not sound too convincing. Most of the time, I expect heavily-leaning members of the media and political commentary to make me walk away thinking that they are very blind. This was not completely the case with Malkin's article. Though I was able to detect interest in the matter, and clear initiative, it seems that she was not being completely efficient in her logic. According to this article published on the day of the last presidential debate where a right network host was the moderator. This is the one thing that makes her argument less credible. My idea is that this election in particular is hard to understand so plainly. For once in a long time it seems, there has not been a candidate hated by many prominent members of either party, and he strikes me as someone who will not appeal to other republicans to win favors when he doesn't need them. Therefore, in this wild card election, it was hard for even a right leaning show host to be nice to Trump. This is a better hypothesis rather than the assumption that every moderator in every debate has it out for republicans.