Confronted by this, the basic questions for the press have been: If covering Trump is also providing free advertising — more than $2 billion worth — should he be covered less or not at all? If Trump is outside the frame of conventional political discourse, how far outside the frame of conventional coverage does the media have to move? And if his evident personal problems render him unfit for the presidency, is it more important to ensure by any means that he is not elected or to be critical of Hillary Clinton where justified?
In other words, is any equivalence of treatment of the candidates “false” because they are not compatible, any more than, say, harassment and murder are compatible crimes?
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