Sure. But why they watch it vs. why they would vote for a President aren't the same thing. The criticism of the media is largely that by primarily covering Trump, they have normalized his excesses (which would have flunked a candidate in any other year… hell, didn't Howard Dean's campaign die because he was…

People attribute the media because people have been able to quantify in monetary terms the amount of publicity that he's gotten from them and it has dwarfed his Republican competitors and Clinton herself.

The guy that couldn't find Aleppo on a map until after he was publicly embarrassed about it?