Missing media neutrality toward Trump and Biden

 Instapundit:

ADVICE TO THE NEWS MEDIA THAT WON’T BE FOLLOWED:

Here’s my radical idea: Give up on attacking Trump, the person, and engage with the substance of his policy arguments. Act as if he’s a completely ordinary politician — pose as if you felt neutrality toward him personally — and engage with the ideas.

You really do need to take him seriously. He’s presumptively the Republican nominee, and he’s got an even chance of getting re-elected to the presidency. You can freak out about that, but you’ve been freaking about about him for 8 years, and it hasn’t fazed him. His supporters tune you out.

Reset. Be normal, and treat him as if he were normal. Give up on trying not to “normalize” him. Forefront the substantive issues, treat all the candidates equally, and let us see how each of them holds up to a thorough grilling.

They’re literally not capable of that. They don’t even understand it, really.

But of course, they can’t be neutral toward Trump unless they’re also neutral toward Biden. And they don’t dare do that. Even with them — more or less literally, Weekend At Bernie’s style — carrying him, Biden’s tanking in the polls. If they treated him neutrally, he’d be in the single digits.

Related: “Biden admin officials forced reporters to submit pre-written questions.” It didn’t take much force. Most are happy to help, and the rest are at least willing to.

This is good advice, but Glenn Reynolds is right that the media can't help itself in dealing with both.  To do so they would have to admit what a mistake it was to support Biden who is not only corrupt but totally incompetent.  They would also have to admit that the country was better off when Trump was president.

See, also:

Trump Takes a Hammer to the Carefully Maintained Delusions Inside the Left-Wing Bubble

And:

 Can Trump cure all of Biden’s ills? Some Dems aren’t so sure.

Anxiety mounts that the 2020 playbook isn’t replicable and that Biden world may be too confident in it.

And:

 White House Now Backpedaling and Scrambling After Comer's Interim Report Shows Big Biden Lie

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