How the media circus was -- and wasn't -- responsible for the end of Biden's reelection bid

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : He stood in split-screen with his mouth hanging open while Trump spoke.
39% : Trump was a changed man, the networks told us, based on their reporting.
20% : In the middle of all this, Trump survived an assassination attempt on July 13.
19% : Why was the media protecting Trump, who lied his way through the debate?
17% : There had been reporting on Biden's mental acumen, though not enough (and it was shot down by the same people who blamed the media for protecting Trump).
15% : The Philadelphia Inquirer won praise from this crowd when it called on Trump to step down because of his "bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering.
14% : Biden supporters accused media of protecting Trump "Every appearance he made, people were watching," ABC News' Martha Raddatz said.
13% : Trump did begin with a message of unity but it quickly devolved into the usual flood of lies and ugly attacks.

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