Study after study (example) has shown that Hillary received unusually negative coverage from the media. Some of that is probably the effect of twenty-five years of slo-mo swiftboating.
But here’s a question: did Hillary receive such negative coverage in large part because Trump generated so much justifiably negative coverage? (The study I linked to showed 75% negative for Trump, 56% for Hillary but others show that Hillary’s percentage of negative coverage was as high or higher than Trump’s). Have we reached a point where both-sides-do-it is so strong that if one candidate is bat shit crazy, the other candidate most also be trashed constantly because balance? I think we have.