Study Finds 88 Percent of Media Coverage is Anti-Trump

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Study Finds 88 Percent of Media Coverage is Anti-Trump

by WARNER TODD HUSTON 2 Mar 2017

A new study finds that 88 percent of coverage of President Donald Trump and his administration is negative.
The study by the Media Research Center (MRC) found that the evening newscasts on the “Big Three” TV networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, were overwhelmingly hostile to Trump.

In its study, the MRC found that over the president’s first 30 days in office, the networks dedicated 16 hours of coverage to President Trump, 54 percent of its total news coverage. MRC found up to 674 negative statements aimed at Trump while only a tiny 88 statements were deemed positive.

“Our measure of media tone excludes soundbites from identified partisans, focusing instead on tallying the evaluative statements made by reporters and the non-partisan talking heads (experts and average citizens) included in their stories,” MRC noted. “In their coverage of Trump’s first month, the networks crowded their stories with quotes from citizens angry about many of his policies, while providing relatively little airtime to Trump supporters.

The MRC also noted that “anchors and reporters often injected their own anti-Trump editorial tone into the coverage.”

The study also noted that the president’s call for a temporary moratorium on travel from seven terror-torn nations drew the most negative coverage. Other negative coverage centered on Trump’s border policies, his economic plans, the battle over his cabinet picks, as well as Trump’s “complicated relationship” with Russia.

“Further highlighting the hostile tone of these newscasts, nearly an hour of coverage (56 minutes) was given over to anti-Trump protests on various topics, with nearly one-fifth (82 out of 442) of the Trump stories or briefs aired during these 30 days including at least some discussion of an anti-Trump protest,” the MRC concluded.

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[CPUd]

A lot of it he brings on himself. Even though it was anti-liberty, he got fairly good reviews in the press for his SOTU speech because he didn't attack muslims, immigrants, political opponents, ....

 

[timosman]

A lot of it he brings on himself. Even though it was anti-liberty, he got fairly good reviews in the press for his SOTU speech because he didn't attack muslims, immigrants, political opponents, ....

Shouldn't you disclose who you work for?

 

[dannno]

88% are anti-Trump

10%+ are totally neutral

 

[juleswin]

If the shoe fits? I hope you guys are not saying the press should be politically correct and start making things up about him to hit some artificial number.

 

[afwjam]

If they actually were against him, they would not cover him. Remember the Ron Paul blackout?

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Donny is the traditional media's meal ticket. The things people do for money.

 

[vita3]

Our Country could be so much better with a honorable press, focused on a little more positivity than doom, gloom, lies & trivial scandals

 

[CPUd]

 

[shakey1]

MSM is usually the Dem's lap dog.

 

[dannno]

If the shoe fits? I hope you guys are not saying the press should be politically correct and start making things up about him to hit some artificial number.

Ya, the shoe fits, the media is the enemy. Most of us here know that. Ron Paul knows that. Ron Paul has his own brand of talking shit on Trump that doesn't sound ANYTHING like the media's brand of talking shit on Trump. Yet we have people here parading around the media's horse crap on a daily basis.

 

[Ender]

If they actually were against him, they would not cover him. Remember the Ron Paul blackout?

Zactly-

And I don't trust Breitbart anymore than I do NYT.

 

[Ender]

Ya, the shoe fits, the media is the enemy. Most of us here know that. Ron Paul knows that. Ron Paul has his own brand of talking $#@! on Trump that doesn't sound ANYTHING like the media's brand of talking $#@! on Trump. Yet we have people here parading around the media's horse crap on a daily basis.

But it's OK if the media horse crap praises Trump, amirite?

 

[dannno]

If they actually were against him, they would not cover him. Remember the Ron Paul blackout?

Um, ya, that strategy doesn't work here. Trump gets too many headlines and makes them money, if one media company blacked them out then they would lose a lot of money.

They have to cover Trump. The question is, why did they attack him constantly and why are they trying to get them impeached? I don't know the answer to that question, but at least I'm asking it.

 

[dannno]

But it's OK if the media horse crap praises Trump, amirite?

Do you have any examples?

I like it when Rand praises Trump for some action or another. I don't know if I've ever heard the mainstream media praise Trump unless they have some kind of agenda.

 

[Ender]

Do you have any examples?

I like it when Rand praises Trump for some action or another. I don't know if I've ever heard the mainstream media praise Trump unless they have some kind of agenda.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...taged-Trump%92s-Transition-To-The-White-House

 

[dannno]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...taged-Trump%92s-Transition-To-The-White-House

That's a hit piece on Trump disguised as a hit piece on Obama.

 

[Ender]

That's a hit piece on Trump disguised as a hit piece on Obama.

Ahhhh..... so [MENTION=1527]klamath[/MENTION] WAS right.

klamath: Only fake if it disagrees with you, don't you know.

 

[klamath]

The media created Trump. Trump would not have found himself in the spotlight throughout the primaries has they NOT wanted him to win. If they didn't want trump he would have become the man they couldn't name. Both Ron and Rand experienced what the media does when they do not want you. They may not have wanted him to win the general election but that was pure overconfidence on Hillarys part in neglecting her core states.
If you support trump you support the medias creation, so quit whinning when they attack their own creation.

 

[phill4paul]

Ya, the shoe fits, the media is the enemy. Most of us here know that. Ron Paul knows that. Ron Paul has his own brand of talking shit on Trump that doesn't sound ANYTHING like the media's brand of talking shit on Trump. Yet we have people here parading around the media's horse crap on a daily basis.

So why aren't more here promote Ron Paul's "talking shit" points?

Care to join in? http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?508144-Ron-s-Tweetstorm-Was-Trump-s-Speech-Libertarian