A significant part of the problem is that people like this don't understand the fight and continue to bemoan the media as if the expectation is that any minute the media is going to come to it's senses and start calling unbiased balls and strikes.
It's not going to happen and the longer they wait to start talking about what the political media is, a fully captured arm of the billionaire class actively being used to normalize their assault on democracy, the worse this is going to go for them (and..well...everyone else).
The poltical press hasn't "bungled the coverage". They've covered it exactly as they've been instructed to by their owners and they've done a spectacular job.