The past few days have been a bit of a preview of what to expect.
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Theres also concerns of a protracted general election campaign of polarized rhetoric.
DEADLINE:Primary season is over.
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What are you going to be looking out for in the next couple of weeks?
ROBERT COSTA:This is going to be a long and arduous general election campaign.
Its unlike anything weve seen in American history.
And these dynamics are going to be playing out all year.
We have to be on top of developments, new themes, new issues.
This is not like 1996, kind of a run-of-the-mill presidential campaign.
Its not like 2012, where it was right versus left, red versus blue.
This is, in the eyes of some Trump critics, an election that is democracy versus anti-democracy.
And the court stories are not just isolated legal stories, they are politically charged stories as well.
DEADLINE:How do you cover this polarization that might be at an unprecedented level?
Do you feel any kind of responsibility to make a run at tone things down?
People are craving civil discourse, and theyre craving credible information.
What is the role of the journalist?
Whats your view on that?
And that is a question we ask all the time in terms of our coverage.
Whats best for the viewer?
