The media SHOULD—but he's too good for ratings for them to do so.
Gods! I remember back when "television news" was a handful of Old White Men, sitting behind desks, giving us what news they and their bosses thought was "fit" for American consumption, and it was slanted towards a Capitalist Corporate agenda, too. But at least back then television news was a loss leader, not a profit center—something television networks did to keep their broadcast licenses, and winning industry awards was the carrot to have them invest money in it.
That and a strange concept called "civic duty"....
Trump isn't a normal human, let alone a normal candidate.
The US media's original sin was legitimizing Trump when he arrived in front of them via an escalator. (That should have been a tip off, right there.)
The media SHOULD—but he's too good for ratings for them to do so.
Gods! I remember back when "television news" was a handful of Old White Men, sitting behind desks, giving us what news they and their bosses thought was "fit" for American consumption, and it was slanted towards a Capitalist Corporate agenda, too. But at least back then television news was a loss leader, not a profit center—something television networks did to keep their broadcast licenses, and winning industry awards was the carrot to have them invest money in it.
That and a strange concept called "civic duty"....
All of this.