I can't help but note that a liberal complains about media bias when it's HIS candidate with the e-mail scandal that becomes The Gift That Keeps On Giving for Donald Trump. But, yes, Rep LLR is right in his observations.
I noted this in another thread, but the real dumbing down of Presidential campaigns occurred in 1992 when Bill Clinton went on Arsenio Hall and played the sax. It seemed innocuous enough, but what it represented was a major candidate bypassing the national media and getting his message out through entertainment circles. Now, the national media have to compete with late night tv, talk shows, talk radio, opinion tv (FOX, MSNBC) and social media, as well as the national news outlets. Chris Wallace has to compete with Howie Carr, who has to compete with a viral meme on Facebook.
I would not agree that the media has been easy on Trump. They've jumped on him, attacked him, stay after him. Trump just plays the game better; he knows something about how to do media that none of his opponents really get. I suspect one of those things Trump knows is that there is a lot of things that the media whips itself into a frenzy about that ordinary voters don't give a crap about. This is why Trump isn't being demolished for not revealing his tax returns; folks really don't care about it enough to change their voting behavior.
Eh, forcing The League of Women Voters onto the backburner in 1988 wasn't exactly a great idea either.
