From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

The Donald Trump campaign is cratering, but evidently it's not his fault.

The election is being rigged by corrupt media, pushing completely false allegations

and outright lies in an effort to elect her president.

Please. Obviously, sour grapes and a figment of a demented imagination. Except for the part of it

that's true. I know at least one journalist who back during the primaries begged his colleagues

to gang up against

the surging Trump.

Every interview with Donald Trump, every single one, should hold him accountable for bigotry,

incitement, juvenile conduct, and blithe contempt for the Constitution.

The voters will do what the voters will do, but it must not be,

cannot be, because the press did not do enough. Back in May, I was agitating for the media to cover

the election, not like the usual horse race, but like an approaching killer storm, to document

his hate speech and debunk his lies.

Not pointedly to go easy on Hillary Clinton, but to meticulously rake the endless Trump muck,

because at stake was our very democracy.

Much journalistic eye-rolling ensued. But after Trump won the Republican nomination,

the coverage did get more hostile. News stories and analysis called out the lies. Columnists and

editorialists raged against him. The same media that built Trump's 24-7 publicity platform turned it into a

gallows, if only by quoting his words and reporting facts.

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