Yet for a brief period, through a daily back-and-forth with the Clintons, did it threaten to overtake his message and consume him?
Advertising has always been the real revenue driver in print, to the point where Murdoch was quite happy to give his "away for free" with the launch of a free London daily back in 2005 (it went out of business last year due to fierce competition from another free paper from rivals Associated Newspapers).
Tonight Larry King welcomes former host of "A Daily Show" Jon Stewart, now happily back with his writers at the revived "The Daily Show" and headed for the Kodak Theater on Sunday night to host the 80th Annual Academy Awards, aka the Oscars.
If the losses can't be stopped, the church will cut the daily back to a weekly.
The videotapes are shipped daily back to an editing team in New York, where they are logged and digitized and the process is begun to give the film some sort of structure.
For Martin, who taped a Daily News back page calling Tim Thomas Whiny Timm" to his chest at yesterday morning's shoot-around, the conclusion had to be sweet.
Last week, Israel Hayom, a daily newspaper backed by the conservative billionaire Sheldon Adelson, effectively embraced Trump in a series of front-page articles.
Forget, for a moment, the increasingly bitter daily back-and-forth.
This time, he has yet to broadcast a single spot and instructed his advisers to avoid becoming consumed by the daily back-and-forth of a campaign.
At the DMZ "truce village" of Panmunjom this weekend, forces from both sides performed a daily ritual stretching back decades.
But for those of us of a certain vintage, memories of the profound, chilling effect of living in an era where mutually-assured destruction and other paranoiac theories were bandied about as a daily ritual flood back.
