Ever since Donald Trump appeared on the scene, the mainstream media has struggled with how to deal with him as a candidate. At first, they were enchanted by his sheer weirdness, which made for great copy and footage. But when Trump flooded the field with lies, they couldn't bring themselves to use the term. They used "falsehoods" or "claims without evidence." Most of all, they treated Trump as if he were just like any other candidate, even when he was anything but.
Perhaps the worst offender is the self-appointed paper of record, The New York Times. When the scandal broke about Trump illegally filming for a campaign ad at Arlington National Cemetery last week - while his aides physically assaulted a worker - the Times reported that the "campaign clashed with an official" at the cemetery, which downplayed just how brazen Trump's actions were. The paper then followed up with another story about how Trump "returns to the politics of forever wars," as if that was the story instead of how the Trump campaign broke the law prohibiting using the hallowed ground for political purposes.
In short, the politics became the story, not the scandal. Or look at the paper's coverage of Trump's cognitive decline. Oh, wait. That was just reserved for Joe Biden.
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