Per TMZ:

NBC execs had a plan to time the release of the Donald Trump audio to have maximum impact on both the 2nd presidential debate and the general election … sources connected with the network tell TMZ. Multiple sources connected with NBC tell us … top network execs knew about the video long before they publicly said they did, but wanted to hold it because it was too early in the election. The sources say many NBC execs have open disdain for Trump and their plan was to roll out the tape 48 hours before the debate so it would dominate the news cycle leading up to the face-off… We’re told the plan was to edit the tape to keep the focus on Trump and not Billy. “Access Hollywood” we’re told was not going to air the portion where Trump and Billy got off the bus and Billy goaded Trump and the soap star to hug. Our sources say the tape was going to be “sanitized” to protect Billy as much as possible. Case in point … after The Washington Post ran the story, ‘Access’ aired their footage and cut out the parts where Billy looked worse — saying things like, “Jeez! Your girl’s hot as s*** in the purple!” We’ve told you the plan got derailed by Hurricane Matthew. Execs decided the wall-to-wall coverage of the storm would mess up the plan to dominate the news with the Trump tape, so they were going to hold it until Monday. It didn’t sit well with some staffers who wanted it out pre-debate, so it was leaked to the Washington Post.

If the media can’t give unequal coverage to candidates to affect the election, how can they time the release of material to adversely affect the electoral prospects of a candidate? It would seem to arguably be under the same umbrella of unfair use of media/airtime access.

It seems to me this is an area ripe for Trump to write copious rules and regulations, to tie the mainstream media down much as Obama tied down industry, as well as direct enforcement authorities act punitively once he takes office.

Of course the big problem is media conglomeration. Mergers and joint marketing agreements have allowed a few powerful minorities to take control of the majority of the nation’s media sources. When Trump gets in he should take a page from Teddy Roosevelt, and become a Media Trustbuster, eliminating the media monopolies, and breaking up all of the mainstream media into a plethora of small outlets to foster competition, with a diverse range of opinions and perspectives.

Increasingly the more the left acts out against him, the more of a free hand Trump’s supporters are going to give him to punish all of his enemies, when he takes office.

If you want to trigger leftists, just get that message out to them.