A: It's about net neutrality.

Q: Why does the media favor Donald Trump?

Donald Trump does not support net neutrality. Actually, he thinks it will lead to the censorship of conservative media. “Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media,” he tweeted in 2014.

The Fairness Doctrine was an FCC policy that began in the 1940s and ended in 1987. The Washington Post has a good summary of what it was all about:

The Fairness Doctrine [...] required that TV and radio stations holding FCC-issued broadcast licenses to (a) devote some of their programming to controversial issues of public importance and (b) allow the airing of opposing views on those issues. This meant that programs on politics were required to include opposing opinions on the topic under discussion. Broadcasters had an active duty to determine the spectrum of views on a given issue and include those people best suited to representing those views in their programming.

So Trump was suggesting that net neutrality regulations would lead to censorship of online media that doesn’t include opposing opinions. That’s a ridiculous suggestion, since the net neutrality regulations had nothing to do with the content of the internet.

http://gizmodo.com/the-2016-presidential-candidates-views-on-net-neutralit-1760829072

This needs to be made clear to every American. Trump's candidacy is about net neutrality.

Ted Cruz is also a foe of net neutrality.

According to a raft of recent national polls, Republican voters approve of government action to ensure that Internet service providers treat all web content the same. A November 2014 University of Delaware survey, for example, found that 85% of Republicans (and 81% of Democrats) were opposed to allowing ISPs to charge web companies a fee to deliver their content to customers more quickly—an arrangement they call “Internet fast lanes.”

Yet five likely Republican presidential contenders have come out against net neutrality in no uncertain terms. Last fall, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz referred to the Federal Communications Commision’s proposed net neutrality rules as “Obamacare for the Internet,” while Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has called them a “direct attack on the freedom of information.” Last weekend, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential race in 2016, said the FCC’s plan to ensure net neutrality was “one of the craziest ideas I’ve ever heard.”

http://time.com/3741085/net-neutrality-republicans-president/

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/despite-fcc-net-neutrality-danger-ever/

Both Democratic candidates support net neutrality, but Sanders is generally viewed as the stronger candidate on this issue.

http://gizmodo.com/the-2016-presidential-candidates-views-on-net-neutralit-1760829072

Most people outside the media favor net neutrality. This is an issue that we need to discuss with our friends who are Trump supporters. (Assuming we have friends who are Trump supporters. I don't.)