A reader expresses some frustration with the media concerning the campaigns:
With “liberal” media like NPR giving Trump 5 to 10 times the airtime and “choicer” coverage than Clinton Every Single Weekday Morning since January, we will be damned lucky if Clinton wins. I blame the media; they’ve pandered to the advertising dollar and in the process built the monster that is Deadbeat Donald.
I figure you have to either look at it as any advertising coverage is good advertising coverage – or the more exposure coverage Trump gets, the more viewers are repulsed by him. While both candidates are very well known, Clinton is moving in an arena for which she’s very well known. Trump, who has his own notoriety in the private sector, has expressed political opinions in the past – but this is his first major expedition into politics, and to some extent the media is justified in according him more time.
And I think that, while it may have helped him in the primary, it has hurt him in the general election.
Not that he didn’t bring it on himself. I’m not suggesting that Donald’s paranoia about the media has any basis in fact. But by covering him more thoroughly, his many negative points were more clearly illuminated, and, to be honest, given this illumination, I am very disappointed that the polls don’t show him down by double digits at this point. Either the coverage is not reaching a lot of voters, or they don’t believe it – or they think it’s positive coverage.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Source: Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
Incidentally, the investment community has read the polls, or maybe their belly button lint, and decided Clinton will win tomorrow. This chart is from Kevin Drum on Mother Jones, and demonstrates how investors have reacted to Clinton news. The clincher? Today the United States markets leapt higher, well in excess of 1%, as polls came out showing Clinton ahead after the latest Comey news release.
