Also, you say that you make the rounds of the "media outlets" and the implication is that the media is "liberal" or slanted toward Democrats. Democrats/Liberals watch mainstream outlets for a couple of reasons: 1. We tend to get our news from various outlets, and those outlets are typically what is available in the mainstream. 2. We would not watch explicitly right wing propaganda outlets like Fox and their ideological ilk. 3. Real left wing media can be hostile to liberalism as well as it is hostile to conservatism because of the support of capitalism, so traditional liberals and Democrats would not find a safe space there.
I do agree that the media is too focused on the antics of Donald Trump. Because of the way that liberalism is set up (search for fact, attempts at objectivity, scientific methodological approach) the default setting for much of the news or at least for journalists is biased toward liberalism in some way. However the driver of the news is Capitalism, which despite the mythology, is not directly related to liberalism. Money drives coverage. While the motivations of the ground level journalists in most cases, is to report on important stories in as accurate a way possible, the reality is that the journalist is a small piece in the media landscape. Decisions about stories and slant of coverage are based on analytics, ad revenue, and other factors, including the desires of the owners, shareholders, and executives of the media companies. Incase you didn't know about 6 companies own about 80% or more of the media outlets in the US.
Trump and his brand of conservative politics, is now the operating procedure for the other major political party in the United States. Republicans in every jurisdiction, have to pay attention to what he deems as important because the leaders at the top of the Republican party apparatus have bowed to that notion. Any Republican who has spoken out against him and who has not repented, has been pretty effectively cut out of importance within the party structure.
If the news was driven by fact and integrity and not money, there would be reporting on the peril that this form of politics has on a free society. What a danger Republicanism and American conservatism has become, and what a bankrupt family the Trump's are. The focus would not be on what stupid thing he has said or done, but on the real substantive danger his flirtation with authoritarianism and fascism present to the US and the rest of the world. Alas, while journalists try to hue to a liberal ideal, the media as an industry hues to a capitalist, money making ideal and Trump's stupid antics bring ratings.
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