When you think the mainstream media has topped out its negative coverage of President Donald Trump, the CNNs and the MSNBCs of the world ramp it up.
Since Inauguration Day, hostile press coverage of the president has been about 90 percent. But that number has actually increased since the summer.
According to a new study by the Media Research Center (MRC), broadcast networks have bumped up their negative coverage of Trump to 92 percent since June, up from 91 percent in the previous months.
Here is what ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news coverage has been like:
– Russia collusion: 342 minutes and 97 percent negative
– Immigration: 308 minutes and 94 percent negative
– Kavanaugh nomination: 291 minutes and 82 percent negative
– North Korea diplomacy: 179 minutes and 90 percent negative
– U.S.-Russia relations: 151 minutes and 99 percent negative
“From then until the end of September, the networks produced an additional 249 minutes of coverage centered on accusations of youthful sexual misconduct, or roughly eight times more than was devoted to the earlier debate about Kavanaugh’s judicial record and philosophy. … The chart (above) reflects only the evaluative (82% negative) statements about how President Trump and his team handled the Kavanaugh nomination, including criticism of the President for dismissing the accusations, and for supposedly limiting the scope of the FBI probe,” the report said.
“Comments about Kavanaugh himself were far more numerous, but just as negative (83%) — nearly all of it focused on the late September misconduct allegations. … Once the coverage moved to the sexual assault allegations, reporters offered nightly recitations of the highly inflammatory (and uncorroborated) charges against Kavanaugh, including that he enabled gang rapes of high school girls in the early 1980s. It is impossible to recall the networks ever giving publicity to a more damning accusation that had not either originated from law enforcement or at least been corroborated by journalistic investigation.”
The cable news networks spent just 14 minutes on the economy, including job growth, tax cuts, and deregulation. It did cover about 80 minutes of tariffs and trade deals and most of it negative (rightfully so).
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