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Originally Posted by nik-
Can we stop this canard that the media let Trump get away with the crap he said? If people are still clinging to this, they're just being purposely blind to it.
It not having an effect is not the same as it not being reported. His crap was constantly in the media. Photon was basically chain posting news articles about terrible things he did/had done constantly for weeks.
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Absolutely. No presidential candidate in modern history has been as excoriated by the media. The reason they kept reporting on his gaffes and scandals and outrageous comments is because their readers - liberal Clinton supporters by wide margin - ate it up. Couldn't stop talking about it. Ridiculing and expressing outrage over Trump was a ratings bonanza. Still is.
Pretty much every major mainstream newspaper in the U.S. came out in support of Clinton. However, it turned out a great many Americans no longer care about endorsements by the mainstream media, and in fact many find an endorsement to be a sign that they should distrust a candidate. That distrust and even outright hatred of the mainstream media is a pretty troubling state of affairs. But I don't see how it's going to change now that the media live in essentially a foreign culture from half of Americans.