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The Mainstream Media's Criticism of Trump
CNN's John Defterios says he thinks there are two competing ideas about the way Donald Trump is covered. The mainstream press can either downplay, or just do the work of making Trump make sense when his rhetoric doesn't match up with what people really want to hear,. Or even more damaging is just covering Trump actually, I think, fairly, which they often do. And that is something we have worked the refs pretty hard on for the past like now six years and I think we've moved the needle, but not enough. But then there's this other side of it, which is this fear that Trump has these magical powers.