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.)
It seems to indicate that there might be an unbridgeable tension between democracy and increasingly unregulated capitalism.
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.