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Mainstream Media’s Coverage of Trump Was 90 Percent Negative in 2018
Analysts found the news reporting to be ‘incessantly hostile’By Kathryn Blackhurst | Lifezette Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Story continues below advertisementThree key mainstream media outlets offered 90 percent negative coverage of President Donald Trump and his administration during their evening newscasts in 2018, according to a report released Tuesday by the Media Research Center (MRC).
It’s no secret that mainstream media reporters and pundits haven’t been thrilled with the Trump administration — and the president often rails against the “fake news media” and their biased coverage.
But MRC listened to and analyzed evening newscasts from purportedly unbiased networks — ABC News, CBS News and NBC News — and found the coverage to be “incessantly hostile” midway through Trump’s first term in office.
“At the midpoint of Donald Trump’s first term, the establishment media’s obvious hostility shows no signs of relenting, but polls show this negative coverage has had no discernible impact on the public’s attitudes toward the president,” Rich Noyes, MRC research director, wrote in his report.
Noyes noted that roughly 23 million people watched these newscasts each evening.
Approximately 28 percent of all airtime was devoted to covering the Trump administration in 2018, for a total of 87 hours — down from 99 hours in 2017.
“The tone of coverage remains incessantly hostile: 90 percent negative, vs. just 10 percent positive (excluding neutral statements), matching the historically bad press we documented in 2017,” Noyes wrote.
The evening newscasts’ negative coverage over the last two years ranged from 82 percent negative in April 2017 to 96 percent negative in February 2018.
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Although the networks offered unrelentingly negative Trump coverage last year, the president’s approval rating rose slightly, from 40 percent to 42.7 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to the RealClearPolitics average.
MRC determines the media’s negative spin by analyzing evaluative statements made solely by purportedly non-partisan reporters, anchors or experts.
The evening newscasts’ negative coverage over the last two years ranged from 82 percent negative in April 2017 to 96 percent negative in February 2018.
More from LifeZetteThe networks zeroed in on five key topics for half of their Trump coverage: special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe into allegations of Russian collusion; the president’s immigration enforcement policies; Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation process; the North Korean nuclear crisis; and the controversies surrounding former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and the hush money payments.
Related: Trump Faced 92 Percent Negative Media Coverage, MRC Study Shows
Ninety-eight percent of the Russia probe coverage was negative, 94 percent of the immigration policy segments were negative, 84 percent of the Kavanaugh confirmation coverage was negative, 80 percent of the North Korea showdown coverage was negative, and 99 percent of the Cohen drama coverage was negative.
AdvertisementThe three networks in total, in December, spent 67 minutes of evening coverage on the partial government shutdown that began late that month.
And it’s no surprise that 97 percent of that coverage negatively portrayed Trump’s handling of the shutdown and his demand for $5 billion in border wall funding.
“The media elite have clearly waded into the political fray to wage war against this president. But have they accomplished anything beyond cementing their reputation as political partisans, not objective journalists?” Noyes wrote.
Trump himself took to Twitter on Monday to bash the “fake news” media, writing, “The Fake News gets crazier and more dishonest every single day. Amazing to watch as certain people covering me, and the tremendous success of this administration, have truly gone MAD! Their Fake reporting creates anger and disunity. Take two weeks off and come back rested. Chill!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1084808599124221954
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26 Comments
5 years ago
It’s just going to get worse!
They won’t be able to impeach him. There is no “collusion” let alone a conspiracy which would then be a crime, so they will up the smear factor and lies. They do NOT want him to have a 2020 win.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
90% is being soft on the MSM. Their existence, lifeblood is to castigate and to dump Trump. News other than to trash and vilify Trump is seldom reported but as a news filler. If I were to turn on CNN, MSNBC or others they would be slicing and dicing the President while kissing the you know of Pelosi and Schumer.
5 years ago
5 years ago
FOX news is 50% or more propaganda…. Just a handful are worth listening to.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
By comparison, Fox News has more liberals on its payroll than all the other networks have conservatives combined.
To me, if any of the other networks run some outrageous line of crap, it will show up on Fox as a news report on the quality of the media. That beats hearing that crap as a steady diet.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The presstitutes of the Amerkan LameStream EneMedia are e devil’s spawn of Nazi Germany’s Josef Goebbels and the Soviet AgitProp machine, distilled and refined.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
MS media’s propaganda against Trump is predictable and untrustworthy. 
CNN anti-Trump propagandist Samantha Vinograd
5 years ago
There is fake criticizm & real criticizm of Trump.
The real criticizm is that that he’s not supporting Pamela Geller, that he’s not supporting a social media & education free of Muhammadist censors (Twitter is partly owned by Saudi Arabia) & that he supports Saudi Arabia.
• He said Pamela Geller would insult everybody.
• Promotes social media which is owned by Muhammadists (Saudi Arabia) & censors.
• Sells weapons to Saudi Arabia where Africans* are enslaved, atheists killed & girls clitodirectomized & raped & to new Muhammadist Nigeria where people are killed by government-backed Muhammadists.
• Regularly finances Muhammadist organisations like Fatah & Pakistan.
• Leaves Syria in the hands of Muhammadists effectively killing atheists.
• Allegedly has a golf-course in Saudi Arabia.
• Under his watch
1. a man protesting against a Mosque was sentenced to 15 years jail.
2. & a court declared the ban on the lifelong torture of clitodirectomy unconstitutional.
3. Mosques plus Mosque-loudspeakers spread.
4. Former government-officials are still active in the government & haven’t been prosecuted for arming of ISIS, cash to Iran, money to Egypt Muhammadists, Fatah, Pakistan & so on & Uranium to Russia.
5. Report showing Saudi Arabia’s & also Iran’s involvement in Twin-Tower attacks is held secret.
6. After supervised by FBI Muhammadist attack on Pamela Geller’s event an injured person has not received compensation nor has the report on the circumstances been made public.
* Africans are enslaved, castrated, divorced, beaten & killed today in Saudi Arabia & enslaved in the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, North-Sudan, Libya (surge), Algeria (surge), Mauritania (20 percent), Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks.
5 years ago
IF I recall the press coverage for the Negro sodomite was 99% positive. But they still couldn’t hide the sodomite from throwing the baseball like a GURL!!
No wonder he curtsied around the world for ya!
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Agreed. The Russians posted a photo of a shirtless Putin horseback and the US shares Obhammud on a bicycle wearing a safety helmet and mom jeans. Wretched!
5 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
And Putin is not ashamed to wear the cross around his neck, unlike Obuzzard.
5 years ago
If truth in packaging were applicable to the media, their product would not be allowed in the marketplace.
What media outlet worth a crap would bend itself like a contortionist to put a negative spin on the story about Trump hosting Clemson’s national championship football team and offering them catered fast food because of the partial shutdown? When it comes to students, everyone who knows anything knows the only guideline is to feed them what they will eat, a point missed by the Obhammud regime and their Auschwitz menu.
5 years ago
Off topic – I am EAGER for that wall…..
I saw this and had to laugh. Walls keep people in as well as out.
Merkel wants OPEN borders to keep that crap coming in.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Unfortunately when it came down she escaped to infect the West with her destructive ideology.
5 years ago
Do you miss Obama?
How about Obama’s “reset” and whispering to Putin about more “flexibility” after the election?
See any problems with that?
5 years ago
Stand fast, Mr Trump. Ignore these bitter losers.
