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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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I think it is much more nuanced than this.
The media treated every transgression by every candidate as a world ending crisis and only discussed how it would affect the campaign. This led to people becoming numb to the issues.
Meaningless things like Milania's plagerism were treated similarly to trump admitting he sexually assaulted women.
They also focused only on how things affect the race. Outside of maybe the Times and the Washingtonpost everything was punditry and not journalism.
Policy was not discussed by either side.