BRIAN STELTER (HOST): Lynn Sweet I want to ask you about that nagging thing that I feel in the back of my head right now, and I bet you feel it too-- it's that desire to treat both sides exactly the same. To say, “Oh, well if Trump is bad with the media, Clinton must be equally bad, that she must treat the press equally horribly.” We all know she went a long time -- almost nine months -- without holding a big, full-fledged press conference. Lately, she has been taking more questions from the media. So I want to ask you, are these two campaigns equal -- are they equal in their treatment or their mistreatment of the media? 

LYNN SWEET: They're each a story in and of itself and this is a point I'd like to make, Brian. You don't have to do a comparable in order to cover one side and this is the trap I think that journalists are falling into: “Well, before I can assess how Donald Trump is doing, I also have to do the second story on Hillary Clinton.” These are two story lines. Of course she should have had more press conferences, but that is a misdemeanor compared to the felonies that you've just described when you deal with the press. And they're not comparable, they shouldn't be treated as comparables, and I encourage my journalist brothers and sisters to look at this as not two stories in one every day, every single way. That's the trap that people are falling into and it's hard sometimes to get away from it, but now is the time to do that.

Previously:

The New York Times Proves “False Balance” Is Ruining Good Campaign Coverage

CNN’s Brian Stelter: “It Is True That Trump Is Held To A Different Standard Than Clinton”

MSNBC's Mike Barnicle: Donald Trump Is The “Continued Beneficiary Of A Huge Double Standard”