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Storrs, Connecticut (CNN) - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lamented the state of journalism on Wednesday, telling an audience at the University of Connecticut that journalism is now driven more by entertainment than fact based reporting.

Clinton, who has been the focus of national media attention since the early 1990s, told the 2,300-person audience that "journalism has changed quite a bit in a way that is not good for the country and not good for journalism."

"A lot of serious news reporting has become more entertainment driven and more opinion-driven as opposed to factual," she said. "People book onto the shows, political figures, commentators who will be controversial who will be provocative because its a good show. You might not learn anything but you might be entertained and I think thats just become an unfortunate pattern that I wish could be broken."

Clinton's comments came as part of the question and answer portion to Wednesdays event. University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst asked Clinton about how journalism has changed and whether journalist could help break gridlock that has halted work in Washington.

The former secretary of state went on to say that she feels there is a space for "explanatory journalism because theres a lot going on in the world that needs explanation."

The former first lady also had a tip for journalist: Do your homework.

"Its important for journalists to realize that they have to do their homework too and they really should be well-prepared when they interview people, when they talk about issues," she said. "I think that its with professional tweaking and creativity we could address some of the issues we know are plaguing journalism today."

Clinton has long been the focus of journalist's attention, which at times has caused an acrimonious view of media.

According to the diary of Diane Blair, a longtime Clinton confidant whose personal documents gained media attention earlier this year, Clinton regularly expressed frustrating and a deep distrust of the media.

In January 1995, Blair wrote that Clinton expressed her total exasperation with all this obsession and attention, and how hard shes finding to conceal her contempt for it all. On Thanksgiving Day 1996, Blair wrote that Clinton thought the press was complete hypocrites.

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In front of a crowded venue Hillary Clinton touched on topics from the struggles of young people to Edward Snowden during her appearance at Jorgensen Auditorium Wednesday night. The former senator and Secretary of State gave a short lecture and answered questions on domestic and international political issues.

A major theme of Clintons talk was participation, which she expounded on significantly. She cheered the volunteers of colonial America, who joined civic clubs, had religious faith or started fire departments, holding the participants up as examples of the American ideal.

Sean Smith, a 2nd-semester Engineering Physics major, appreciated Clintons comments directed towards young people.

I liked how she talked about students and our role in participation, Smith said. We have to go out and vote despite being frustrated with the government.

Clinton also addressed the middle class of America, which, she noted, is not as prosperous as it once was. According to Clinton, the middle class has more to do with the concept of equality, rather than economic growth. Honing in on UConn students in the auditorium, Clinton said it is in the younger generations that people are struggling to find work.

Today, there are nearly six million young people in America who are out of school and out of work, Clinton said. But, Clinton asserted, its even more difficult for people of color, which is a fact so often forgotten.

Clinton noted that neither her nor President Obama would have been a full citizen when the United States was founded. To her, it is the immigrants and the socially downtroddens struggle to participate in the American process of democracy, education and opportunity that define American exceptionalism. She proposed the idea that the millennial generation represents the participation generation that holds the values of old America true, while remaining more tolerant than the America of old. She cited a recent increase in volunteer hours and LGBT rights as examples of full and equal participation in the modern age.

Caitee Winkler, a 6th-semester art history major, enjoyed when Clinton acknowledged womens issues.

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BOSTON (AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton is daring women to compete, but not saying whether she will herself in 2016.

The former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state addressed a womens leadership conference in Boston on Wednesday, an event set just 30 miles from the New Hampshire state line as she weighs another presidential campaign.

Clinton had little to say about her political future, but offered a strong message to the largely female audience estimated at 3,500.

There are times in all of our lives when were either given an opportunity or we see one that we could seize. And we get nervous. We worry. Were not ready to dare anything. But I hope you will, she said at the Simmons Leadership Conference set along the Boston waterfront. Women have to dare to compete.

Its a familiar refrain from Clinton, who has focused on gender equality, among other issues, in a series of public appearances since leaving the Obama administration last year.

In a speech and subsequent question-and-answer session that spanned more than an hour, Clinton thanked the thousands of runners who competed in the Boston Marathon earlier in the week for sending a message of hope, resilience and determination one year after the vicious attack. Three people died and hundreds were injured in twin bombings near the finish line of last years marathon.

Clinton also drew on her experience as secretary of state, listing her biggest regret as the deadly 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. She called it a terrible, senseless, terrorist action.

Clintons proximity to New Hampshire, which traditionally hosts the countrys first presidential primaries, was as noteworthy as her remarks.

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STORRS, Conn. (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday she believes the outcome of the standoff in Ukraine will be a bad one for Russia.

Speaking at a University of Connecticut issues forum, the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state said she believes the sanctions against the Russian government must be "tightened and widened" to prevent the crisis from escalating.

"I think Russia will pay a big price for this," Clinton said. "But that is an endpoint that we've got to get to as peacefully as possible without seeing the total disintegration of Ukraine as a country with territorial integrity and opportunity to have the relationship it wants with the West."

Clinton, who is considering a run for president in 2016, said she believes Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to see a return of a Russian era that no longer exists and said the U.S. and Europe need to be "very clear, strong and to some extent patient" to make that outcome unaffordable to him.

"I think the outcome for him and Russia will not be good, which is deeply unfortunate," she said. "Russia should be a much more dynamic and much more successful country and could be if Putin weren't trying to turn the clock back to the Soviet Union days."

Clinton spoke for more than an hour to a group of about 2,300 students, faculty and staff. The talk was not open to the general public.

She used her prepared remarks to praise young people's activism and community service, and called on UConn students be part of what she called the "participation generation."

She was then asked questions submitted in advance and spoke on issues ranging from congressional gridlock to immigration reform.

She urged the students not to vote for any leader who does not believe in compromise. But she did not say whether she would be a candidate for president.

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