For years and years, the media have been "unbiased". Sure, they've probably skewed liberal, but they've tried to stay impartial. What the hell happened to that!? Since he announced his campaign, the media have been covering Trump nonstop. Every remark he's made, everything he's done. This enabled his name recognition to skyrocket, which let him win the Republican primaries. And now in the general, the media are covering Stormfront/Breitbart conspiracy theories as normal news and not caring about policy.
Why is this? Ratings. Ratings have driven the media insane and have let them become so biased in favor of Trump that they're enabling his candidacy. The media will be singlehandedly responsible for the destruction of our nation and our world, all because they want sweet, sweet cash. It's disgraceful. And it's definitely making a difference in the polls. If Trump wins this election, it's gonna be thanks to the news organizations.
ADDENDUM: And through this entire process, whenever Trump releases a bit of concrete policy, the hail it like a God has come to Earth, while the candidate(s) with actual good plans are ignored. Each side of Trump's flip flops are covered while other candidates' policy plans are never covered at all.
I do blame the media for Trump winning the GOP nomination because they wanted the ratings and correctly believed that he would be the easiest republican for Hillary to beat.
But liberals crying crocodile tears over biased media coverage is deeply ironic. The media has ruthlessly demonized every GOP nominee over the past 40 years. Reagan was a dumb lunatic who was going to get us into WWIII. HW Bush was a wimp. Dole and McCain were senile and incompetent. Dubya was a war criminal who intentionally lied us into war in order to make his friends in the oil industry rich. Romney was a heartless plutocrat who wants old and the poor to die. After crying wolf for so many years, the American people just aren't listening to the liberal media. Now, a real wolf has shown up at the doorsteps, and their standard critique of "OMG! The GOP nominee is racist, xenophobic, and dangerous!!!" rings hollow. If Trump wins, the media will have to engage in deep introspection.
