In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, major newspapers are giving former President Donald Trump’s federal criminal indictment for alleged crimes related to the January 6 insurrection a fraction of the coverage they gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email se...
Does anyone else remember when the president's age was a big topic? Suddenly Trump is the oldest candidate and just like that the media doesn't talk about it anymore.
Whatever the reason might be, the fact is that Trump is getting much gentler treatment in 2024 than Hillary Clinton did in 2016. That's especially concerning given that Trump's alleged crimes are many orders of magnitude worse than Clinton's alleged crimes.
Definitely seems like the media, bought up by very conservative old men, has a favourite in the election. Not sure if they're pushing the narrative that Trump is surging to depress Democratic Party vote or motivate us to not get complacent.
Because otherwise they'd be accused of 'election interference'. X in the other hand, gets a free pass to do just that. Selective outrage at its finest.
You think you have a big gotcha here, but it was covered extensively when it happened. The google (or Bing in this case)(you don't want us to do returns over 10 pages of results, including articles from:
NBC News (top result)
US News
AP News
Wikipedia
CNN
NY Times
LA Times (literally, coast to coast here)
NPR
Reuters
Fox News (of course...)
Politico
Some of these sources wrote more than one article, with at least three by CNN and two by NPR.
You might think none of us know that Trump came close to assassination on 2024-09-15, but did you know that Trump didn't tell his secret service detail he was going to the golf course, so they didn't do a perimeter sweep before he got out there? They only found the shooter because Trump was finishing up one hole and they rushed to the next and spotted the would-be assassin.