Quote:What's your point have to do with what I was suggesting?  I am responding to a very specific criticism: That the media can't be both for Trump and against him.  My quoting of that information was to show that it is not an indefensible position.  I didn't call Hillary corrupt for having a strategy.  There are far more condemning emails if I wanted to put Hillary on trial.  

 

Even then, I can defend why this, in and of itself, is not ideal for a democracy.  The media should be watchdogs, not kingmakers.  Her camp should never be able to tell the media to take certain candidates seriously.  The media, ideally, would be above taking instructions from a political candidate, and be equally critical of all candidates (in that they apply equal scrutiny... all candidates are not equal in deserving criticism).  This is just not the case in our current political system.  The media will run with a narrative of Trump threatening our democracy, while allowing their own bias to influence their fair reporting.  Even my hardcore lefty friends can agree that there has been an unusually overt slant this election cycle.  

 

Well, trump is an overtly different type of candidate.  Obviously the media shouldn't be king makers.  The media is responsible for actually getting trump to the GOP nominee for the most part.  They gave him billions of dollars of free and POSITIVE press for the entirety of the primary season.  It was out-right disgusting how much the media was in love with trump and the ratings push that his train-wreck of a campaign was.  Remember that he paid people to be there for his announcement speech.  That was not covered.  The media didn't give any push back to the racism of trump, or to the fact that his slogan "Mexico will pay for the Wall" made any sense.  They just went with it.  All the way till about March.  Then in april, they realized, "Uh-Oh, this madman may be the next president!".  And started doing thier jobs.

 

Of course, the GOP failed too.  They never came out against trump as a whole.  They just saw this as the culmination of the astro-turfed tea party push that begin under Obama.  They sowed the seeds for the racists and bigots to take over the party if a highly nationalistic person could consolidate them into 1 person.  trump's policies don't even line up with GOP traditional policies.  He said Planned Parenthood did good things.  He hates free trade, which if you can remember, is something that the GOP loves.  He said he's raise taxes on rich people...  That has changed of course.  He's a RHINO in every sense of the word, and yet because of his nationalistic and racist bent, his base loves him and will not waiver.  

 

The rise of donald is partly on the media and partly on the republican party.  They own this animal.

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