Some of the stuff they covered was ridiculous, too, but they guy was an absolute machine for creating gaffes and outrageous behavior. Giving him the same treatment as any other candidate would still have looked like "picking on him".

If anything, they didn't pick on him enough for some things—I still can't believe the man became President after suggesting his supporters might assassinate his opponent, if she won. And that wasn't spin or bias, that's just what he did, the whole thing's available for anyone to watch. When he did that and his campaign kept trucking along without a hitch was the moment I decided our democracy itself was in danger (which turned out to be very right—maybe I should join a think-tank or become a political commentator or something, I also got a ton of the course of Iraq more-correct than most commentators)

Who attempted to overthrow an election and where?

The people who built a gallows outside of the building where the election results were being officially counted and threatened to use it to lynch the person presiding over that count if he didn't produce a fraudulent count in their favor and then stormed said building with every appearance of intending to carry out that threat.

The call to the Georgia Sec. of State asking to find 11,809 more votes was far closer to the genuine overthrow attempt.

…by covering the nonsense of the Trump show, they lessened the impact of the news of the real evil of the attempted overthrow. Instead of being presented as the danger it was, it was reduced to the season finale of the Trump show.