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Hillary Clinton holds up UConn Huskies outfits given to her by university president Susan Herbst for Clinton's future grandchild at the University of Connecticut on April 23, 2014, in Storrs, Conn.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed her frustrations about the current state of media on Wednesday night, describing what she sees as an entertainment-driven approach to news that is not good for the country and not good for journalism.

The potential 2016 frontrunner, 66, made her less-than-flattering comments during a Q&A session at her first-ever appearance at the University of Connecticut following her keynote address at the Edmund Fusco Contemporary Issues Forum in which nearly 2,300 students and faculty were in attendance.

Using questions submitted by students, University President Susan Herbst asked Clinton about the role journalists could play in resolving the gridlock in Congress. Clinton took the question and ran with it.

I think journalism has changed quite a bit in a way that is not good for the country and not good for journalism, Clinton said, venting about her concern that a more ratings-driven approach to television has led to theatrics over facts. A lot of serious news reporting has become more entertainment-driven and more opinion-driven, as opposed to factual. People book onto the shows political figures, commentators who will be controversial, who will be provocative, because its a good show. You may not learn anything, but you might be entertained.

Clinton argued that the obligation to show two sides to every story can be detrimental to a viewers understanding of complicated issues, citing climate change deniers and the handling of the Affordable Care Act.

Its OK to have people who ask hard questions about what were going to do about climate change, who come at it in a very vigorous, scientific way, but not to have people who just basically roll their eyes and say, Its not happening, and, Im not going to participate.she said. And the Affordable Care Act peopledidntreally understand what was happening with it because all they saw was an argument about it. So wedidnteven give them the basic facts to make up their own minds.

Even so, Clinton said she was optimistic that the issues plaguing journalism today could be resolved with some professional tweaking on the part of journalists.

Its important for journalists to realize that they have to do their homework, too, she said. They really should be well prepared when they interview people, when they talk about issues, because audiences usually tune in to see whoever the journalist is. And so that person has a responsibility, as well.

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April 24--STORRS -- Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a targeted message to millennials at a speech Wednesday night at the University of Connecticut: participate.

"The great question for your generation and for those of us in positions of influence or leadership [is]: do we want to continue to be a country where everyone has an equal shot to participate and to live up to their full potential?" Clinton asked. "Or are we ready to break faith with all that has gone on before and accept leaving a growing number of our fellow citizens marooned, sitting on the sidelines?"

Left unsaid was whether Clinton, a Democrat who is considering a run for president, will remain on the sidelines herself in 2016.

But her remarks to about 2,300 people at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts had the familiar ring of a campaign stump speech.

Clinton hit many of the notes her college campus audience would expect. She congratulated the UConn men's and women's basketball teams on their duel NCAA championships, dutifully naming the stars on each team.

She gave a shout-out to Yale law school classmate, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal in the front row, adding slyly, "I'm hoping he doesn't tell anybody what we did in law school."

But the bulk of Clinton's 30-minute speech was a pep talk to college students. "This is an open-minded, tolerant generation," she said, "and one of the examples of that is the speed with which support for [gay rights] have advanced in recent years. In large measure that's because of millennials.

"So when I look at this audience and look out more broadly at students and young people across our country, I am hopeful," she said. "And we desperately need your energy and your talents. We need in others words your participation."

Clinton is much in demand on the lecture circuit, and is making a lucrative living addressing big crowds across the nation since leaving her post as U.S. secretary of state last year.

The speech at UConn was actually her second stop in New England -- earlier Wednesday, she addressed women business executives at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston.

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Sept. 11, 2012: A protester reacts as the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest by an armed group.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called the Benghazi terrorist attack -- which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Ty Woods and Glenn Doherty -- the most significant failure on her watch.

In a question and answer session at Simmons College Wednesday night, Clinton listed the terrorist assault on the diplomatic compound in eastern Libya as her biggest regret.

"It would certainly be the attack on our facility in Benghazi, and the loss of, uh, two State Department personnel and two CIA contractors from the terrorist attack and the terrible consequences of that," she said.

"It's very, very painful and it was certainly the biggest regret that I had as Secretary of State."

While Benghazi's impact on a possible presidential run is unknown, Clinton focused on the emotional toll.

"They weren't the only people that we lost, but we lost them in such a terrible, senseless, terrorist action that, you know, it's just deeply sorrowful and it went on for hours, because the CIA annex was attacked after the State Department facility was attacked," she said of the Sep. 11, 2012 assault.

Her comments stand in sharp contrast to her defiant congressional testimony in January 2013, when she appeared before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.

"The fact is we had four dead Americans, was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they'd they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?" she asked.

Those who have followed Benghazi from the day of the attack, including national security correspondent Eli Lake of the Daily Beast, said it was a significant change in tone.

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Hillary Clinton, addressing women at a conference on developing a new generation of female leaders, made no mention of any political plans, but urged them: 'Dare to compete.'

Hillary Clinton has now finished her memoir of her time as President Obamas secretary of State. Thats what she said Wednesday at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston, in any case.

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Peter Grier is The Christian Science Monitor's Washington editor. In this capacity, he helps direct coverage for the paper on most news events in the nation's capital.

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I literally just turned in my book, Ms. Clinton told the conference crowd.

Thats fairly fast writing. She resigned from the Foggy Bottom post on February 1, 2013. Clinton probably kept a detailed daily diary and undoubtedly had the help of aides to some unknown extent, but shes also been giving lots of speeches and traveling the world for the Clinton Foundation. In that context a year or so to write a complicated memoir about running US diplomacy is moving quickly. There are people whove had that job who would still be polishing Chapter Two.

Of course she had to work quickly given that publisher Simon & Schuster says the book, titled Hard Choices, will be available beginning June 10. She has to earn that reported $14 million advance, after all.

Clinton did not say anything new in regard to her post-book political plans at the Simmons event, which focuses on the development of a new generation of female leaders. But she did tell attendees that as you leave this conference I hope you think about the ways you can dare to compete, according to the official conference Twitter feed.

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