All of your confusion will clear up once you realize the media is not trying to help the Democrats win. I know the conservative media you consume constantly tells you this but they are lying to you. You're so close to seeing it too as you can't make sense of how to fit what the media is actually doing with what you think they should be doing given your understanding.
It should have also been abundantly clear to you the media was not trying to help Democrats win in 2016. For example:
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Does that look like a newspaper that's trying to help Hillary Clinton? Hahaha.
It's not about occasional pieces like this, its about airtime. They spent much more airtime on Trump and continue to do so. As for the media is not trying to help Democrats win, that is what I have been telling you. The media is not trying to help Democrats win, but the perhaps unintended consequence is they are helping Trump. That is what I'm saying.
Publicity + airtime = promoting for a win. There is no such thing as bad publicity, as the saying goes.

