It has been obvious to almost everyone that the main stream media has a very negative view of Donald Trump. It influences their coverage of him, or they don't seem to care that it's so obvious.
So unless that attitude changes, reports such as this one won't matter to anyone but Trump supporters: News Coverage of Donald Trump’s First 100 Days. Here's the intro:
A new report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage of President Trump’s first 100 days in office.
The report is based on an analysis of news reports in the print editions of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, the main newscasts of CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC, and three European news outlets (The UK’s Financial Times and BBC, and Germany’s ARD).
Findings include:
-President Trump dominated media coverage in the outlets and programs analyzed, with Trump being the topic of 41 percent of all news stories—three times the amount of coverage received by previous presidents. He was also the featured speaker in nearly two-thirds of his coverage.
-Republican voices accounted for 80 percent of what newsmakers said about the Trump presidency, compared to only 6 percent for Democrats and 3 percent for those involved in anti-Trump protests.
-European reporters were more likely than American journalists to directly question Trump’s fitness for office.
-Trump has received unsparing coverage for most weeks of his presidency, without a single major topic where Trump’s coverage, on balance, was more positive than negative, setting a new standard for unfavorable press coverage of a president.
-Fox was the only news outlet in the study that came close to giving Trump positive coverage overall, however, there was variation in the tone of Fox’s coverage depending on the topic.
Take at look at it. The charts are very revealing.
What I find interesting is the high percentage of Republican voices featured in the coverage, and yet it's overwhelmingly negative for Trump. While that's discouraging overall, the bright side has to be that at least Republicans don't march in lock step like the opposition party does.
Via Heatstreet.
P.S. As for the negative coverage, Trump is probably right to say about the New York Times, "They're not our friends. We're never going to win them over ."
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2:35 PM 5/19/2017
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