Trump's lies and scandals were not glossed over. The problem with the press today, if you want to call it that, is their use of news judgment. It differs greatly from when I was in newspapers (late '60s through early 2000s). Not everything needs to be covered at face value. The hunger for news leads to "news" that really isn't. A very good example: The Hillary Clinton/DNC email hacks in 2016. Those emails were stolen. The fact the source for the emails was Wikileaks should have disqualified any stories quoting those emails because the source couldn't be trusted for accuracy. Few news outlets if any did.
A more recent example -- some of the stories about Tim Walz that came out in the campaign fit that binder. But those disappeared pretty quickly, thankfully, though I will agree they got more life than they should have. But Trump's scandals were in the news continuously. Part of the problem, IMO, is the volume of the RW media is much louder than the legitimate media because Fox and their ilk have no standards. The RW also has a knack for pulling things out of nowhere that get a longer life than they deserve because of the curiosity of the public.
Bottom line: The legitimate media has standards. The propagandists like Fox don't. They turned the coverage to make the legit media look bad.
Real journalists are saving our asses every day of the week. That includes the NY Times and Washington Post. That's not to say they don't blow things once in a while. Despite what Bezos said, I think the timing of the Post (and L.A. Times) on those Kamala endorsements was dreadful. Had those happened six months or a year earlier, they would have meant nothing. But coming as they did, they were pointing an arrow at their intentions.
I'll say it again: Real journalists are saving our asses every day of the week. If we want our freedom, we need to root for them, not against them. You've got Trump and God knows what happening starting January 20. I don't even want to think what would happen without the legitimate press. Let's hope that besides the couple of examples of cowering to Trump we've seen so far the rest of the press stays strong. (One thing, though: Talking to Trump doesn't mean cowering. They will have to because of his office. But that doesn't mean they kiss his ring.)
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