"The 2016 campaign has brought an intense progressive counterattack on media timidity toward the right. Allowing Trump to dominate television time during the primary campaign has nothing directly to do with the liberal-conservative argument, but it’s something the media will have to answer for. This disadvantaged other Republican presidential candidates and reflected a hunger for ratings that overcame any concern for balance.
"Coverage of Trump has become the occasion for a new crisis of credibility. There is the matter of Trump’s outsized access to television time during the primaries that dwarfed the attention given to his competitors. Liberals insist further that he is being held to a much lower standard than is HRC, which, in turn, means that while relatively short shrift is given to each new Trump scandal, the same old Clinton scandals get covered again and again."
At www.commonwealmagazine.org
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