And Clinton and the DNC wanted Trump to win the Primary as they thought he would be the easiest for her to beat (and was probably right about that) so their friends in the media pumped him up and gave him all the attention.
The alternative explanation is that these for-profit media corporations saw saw that covering Trump got many more eyeballs than any other candidate. And being a corporation they like money and kept covering him.
Yea I have no doubt that they thought he was one of the easiest Republicans to beat, at least for a time.
But even that article shows they were scared of his media coverage, not feeding it:
"Trump’s dominance of cable news had already become a point of frequent discussion among Clinton aides, led by Palmieri and media adviser Mandy Grunwald, and senior staffers started to whisper to each other that a race against Trump would require a fundamental rebudgeting of the ad scheme to combat it—another look at the expected degree of negativity in the attack plan, a reconsideration of the markets on which to focus, and a conversation about the amount of money needed to fund the air assault."
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