Study: 90% of Trump Coverage in Last 3 Months Has Been Negative
The mainstream media�s bias against President Donald Trump may be even worse than was previously
thought, according to a new report.
A study released Tuesday by the Media Research Center reveals that more than 90 percent of
statements about Trump made on the ABC, NBC and CBS evening broadcasts by reporters and
nonpartisan sources in the last three months were negative.
The media�s hostile approach to covering the Trump administration has been documented
by the media watchdog group, whose goal, according to its website, is �to expose and neutralize
the propaganda arm of the Left: the national news media.�
�As the Media Research Center has been documenting all year, the media have approached the Trump
presidency with unrelenting hostility,� MRC director of research Rich Noyes wrote
in his analysis of the study.
The study shows that in September, there were only 31 pro-Trump statements and 359 negative
statements on the ABC, NBC and CBS broadcasts.
In October, there were 41 positive statements on the �Big Three� evening newscasts,
but the number of negative statements grew to 435.
There seemed to be a decrease in statements overall about Trump in November, with the
MRC citing the coverage of the allegations against Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore
as a possible explanation.
Out of the 353 statements about Trump in November, 33 were positive and 320 were negative.
With the events of this past week, it is clear that the White House and the media do not
get along.
�It�s always been strained, but now, can the press even give � the president says
the press won�t ever give me a fair shake,� MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle said on her Nov.
27 show, according to NewsBusters.
�But can it give him a fair shake when he calls them fake news day in and day out?�
On Monday, for example, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders went head-to-head
with CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta during a news briefing.
�A number of outlets have had to retract and change and rewrite and make editor�s
notes to a number of different stories,� she said.
�Some of them with major impacts including moving markets.
This is a big problem.�
Acosta responded to her statement by claiming that �journalists make honest mistakes,
and that doesn�t make them fake news.�
The CNN correspondent then tried to interrupt Sanders mid-question, to which the press secretary
interjected, �I am sorry � I am not finished.�
�You cannot say that it�s an honest mistake when you�re purposely putting out information
that you know to be false or when you�re taking information that hasn�t been validated,
that hasn�t been offered any credibility, and that has been continually denied by multiple
people including people with direct knowledge of an incident,� Sanders added.
Trump, for his part, has accused CNN and other mainstream media outlets of spreading fake
news.
CNN has received significant criticism lately for its coverage of Trump.
The network ran a segment Monday about how Trump reportedly drinks 12 Diet Cokes every
day.
The segment aired during the same time other news organizations were covering the attempted
terror attack in New York City.
On Friday, the network published a story falsely claiming that Donald Trump Jr. had early knowledge
of Democratic National Committee emails obtained by WikiLeaks.
After public outcry over the error, CNN was forced to correct the story.
According to an MRC study from earlier this year, as of August 31, there had been nearly
74 hours of coverage of the Trump administration during the �Big Three� evening newscasts.
In comparison, in all of 2015 and 2016, the Obama administration only received 59 hours
of coverage.
The analysis of this heavy coverage showed that the goal �is not to promote the President,
but to punish him.�
�Even as the media whine about Trump, their hostile coverage shows no let up,� Noyes
wrote in his analysis if the MRC�s most recent study.
�Our study of news in June, July and August found an identical rate of 91 percent negative
coverage � which means TV news is unchanged in its hostility toward the president.�
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