Is this a strategy of the "liberally biased" media?

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/02/is-this-strategy-of-liberally-biased.html

As a former President, Trump gets more coverage in the news cycle than the current President does, by far. He's developed a strategy which gets him in the news for free campaign advertising as often as they will cover, and he has a knack for making them jump and run whenever he issues a call. It's frustrating to me, to hear the name "Trump," over and over and over again, and to watch these journalists, who tend to be educational elites looking down their noses at most of their audience, incapable of resisting the temptation to cover something he's done that no other former President would ever have covered.

So much for being fair and balanced, for journalistic principles, and for being a free press that holds government accountable to the people.

But...maybe I'm missing something.

So I wonder if there's some sort of strategy behind the media's coverage, without much commentary, of the stupid, idiotic things he says and does. Clearly, there's no one around him who is either brave enough or honest enough to tell him that much of what he says and does, while it makes his MAGA cult happy, is turning off a much larger percentage of voters who, either subtracted from casting a vote for him, or actually turning out for Biden, which will lead to his certain defeat in November. And the news medis is spending a lot of time covering everything he says and does.

[Joinfortmill]

1. It's a problem & it's dangerous for our democracy

[RockRaven]

2. They only care about ratings/clicks/etc. They give no shits about the

consequences beyond the next quarter/review period/contract/whatever. Hordes of people acting in their personal self interest with no thought or responsibility for the big picture is behind many of our current problems not just this one (and many such problems throughout the annals of history).