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The media will support whichever candidate looks most likely to support the status quo of the establishment. Party doesn't really matter. If you want to see disparate treatment, why not go back to 2000 when Gore and Bush were running. One guy had multiple falsehoods repeated in the press almost endlessly, focus given to the color of his suits and just about all substantive arguments he was making either ridiculed or ignored. The other guy wanted to make the pie higher and was hailed for the great achievement of not falling flat on his face in the debates. (It looks like a budget. It has a lot of numbers.)
How about 2004? The "liberal" media assisted the Democratic power structure in taking down Howard Dean. Long before "Yarrrgh!", there was the Dean-morphs-into-Bin Laden ad in Iowa which was put together, paid for and run...by Democrats. Dean was an outsider. He represented a potential authentic challenge to the status quo and we can't have that. Just look at how the Obama admin has rewarded Dean's efforts to rebuild the Democratic Party and make it relevant in all 50 states. Oh...wait. (See my point?)
