For the past two weeks, as the general election polls tightened, the mainstream media has taken an extraordinary browbeating—from Democrats, liberal pundits, and the president himself—for allegedly not subjecting Donald Trump to sufficiently exacting coverage.
This line of attack hasn’t worked yet, and it’s unclear if it will. The media actually has reported at length on Donald Trump’s corruption, his impulsiveness, and his racially charged remarks. But such stories are already priced into his brand to a greater extent than they are Clinton’s. Voters don’t care as much about Trump Foundation graft as Clinton Foundation influence-peddling because Trump isn’t promising to be a good-government establishmentarian. He’s promising to be a strongman—someone who breaks the rules to get things done.The role of the media in the race is especially interesting in light of Gallup’s latest media tracking poll. In a nutshell, confidence in the media has declined steadily at about one point per year over the last two decades (from 53 percent in 1997 to 32 percent in 2016). But the decline hasn’t been evenly distributed across the political spectrum: Among Republicans, confidence has plummeted especially sharply—an unprecedented 18 points during this election season alone.
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