Frankly, the dude managed to get a lot more coverage than he probably "deserved" by any reasonable metric. Early on in the primary contest I think the media should be pretty open to long shot candidates, but at some point either they managed to draw a significant base of support, as measured by donors and polls, or they don't.
I don't think the bar should be set obscenely high, but if you can't manage to rake in a million bucks by this point then you really haven't gotten anywhere.
