
Originally Posted by
BiffCo99
So what you're saying is that the media IS ALLOWED to pick and choose who they think is an awful candidate and who isn't, and then ruthlessly attack that candidate while favoring the other?

to answer your question, yes, they're allowed to do anything they want, but i agree with you that it's not a great situation.
let's take an extreme hypothetical situation. what if an adolf hitler clone was running for office against hillary and openly advocated for exterminating jews or something crazy. yep, that is an extreme crazy example, and i'm not at all saying trump is like that.
but in that example, would anyone truly argue that the media should be covering hillary and hitler the same way? the question then becomes, how horrific a candidate does one have to be before the media is "justified" in not covering that person "fairly."