[ April 25, 2024 ]
Absolutely despicable. President Trump is 100 percent correct: the MSM is the enemy of the people. Never has the MSM represented such a danger to America. President Trump is right to stop communicating with these vicious propagandists.
What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately. They get record ratings, & the American people get nothing but Fake News. Not worth the time & effort!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2020
I never said the pandemic was a Hoax! Who would say such a thing? I said that the Do Nothing Democrats, together with their Mainstream Media partners, are the Hoax. They have been called out & embarrassed on this, even admitting they were wrong, but continue to spread the lie!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2020
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STUDY: Washington Post Bashes Trump Virus Response with 25-to-1 Negative Headlines
By News Busters, April 26, 2020
As the leading newspaper in the nation’s capital, the editors of The Washington Post know much of their influence comes from their ability to set an agenda for the many powerful political and media people who read it on a daily basis. And the first thing those powerful readers see every morning are the big headlines on The Post’s front page, framing the news the way The Post’s editors want them to see it. (Click on image to expand.)
In the 100 days since the coronavirus epidemic began to receive significant news coverage, The Post has used its front page to undermine the administration’s response to the unprecedented crisis, with dozens of headlines flagrantly editorializing against the President and nearly everyone on his team.
The Media Research Center reviewed the headlines of all 136 Washington Post front-page news stories about the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus from January 17 through April 25. None of these articles was labeled as an editorial or an opinion piece, but many of the headlines employed heavy-handed rhetoric to slam the administration, from the President and the White House down to departments and agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Our analysts tallied 53 obviously negative headlines during this 100 day period, compared with just two that were clearly positive, a greater than 25-to-1 disparity. (The remaining 81 headlines were neutral, although that does not mean that the articles did not convey an obvious slant.)
Most of The Post’s venom was directed at President Trump himself, with highly-opinionated language such as: “A confused effort to show calm control” (March 1); “Trump’s error-filled speech rattled rather than reassured” (March 13); “White House’s chaotic response evokes Trump’s early days” (March 15); “70 days of denial, delays and dysfunction” (April 5); and “Hostility to criticism, hunger for praise are central to his response” (April 9).
Neither of the two positive headlines were about Trump: “Reliable Fauci has everyone’s ear — even Trump’s” (March 21) and “Mnuchin emerges as able dealmaker in stimulus talks” (March 28).
The Trump team’s many accomplishments — assistance deployed to hard-hit areas, millions of tests administered, deals struck to build ventilators, and the dramatic lowering of fatality estimates as Americans implemented the administration’s strategy to “flatten the curve” — were either ignored, buried inside the newspaper, or relayed with neutral headlines that refused to celebrate good news.
Strung together, The Post’s headlines read like a dismal daily diary of dysfunction, all aimed at conveying that agenda to its elite readership who would multiply their negative take throughout the political establishment.
Here are each of The Post’s hostile headlines about the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus as they appeared in the local print editions of The Post over the last 100 days (click “Expand” to read them all):
■ Feb 4: “A scramble to execute U.S. order on travel.” From inside the article: “…the order came Friday with no advance notice and little planning.”
■ Feb 17: “Trump’s praise of Xi alarms advisers.”
■ Feb 27: “Experts contradict president’s upbeat assessment.”
■ Feb 28: “Complaint: Workers not trained in virus aid.” Story accuses HHS of sending workers with insufficient training and protective gear to attend evacuees from Wuhan.
■ March 1: “A confused effort to show calm control.”
■ March 4: “Messaging undermines U.S. efforts on virus.”
■ March 8: “How the Trump administration squandered its response time.”
■ March 10: “From tweet eruptions to economic steps, Trump struggles for calm.”
■ March 11: “Trump’s pitch for payroll-tax cut faces bipartisan skepticism.”
■ March 13: “Trump’s error-filled speech rattled rather than reassured.”
■ March 15: “White House’s chaotic response evokes Trump’s early days.”
■ March 15: “Trump tears up CDC’s playbook on health crisis.” From inside the article: “But the Trump administration’s zigzagging, defensive, inconsistent messages about the novel coronavirus continued Friday, breaking almost every rule in the book and eroding the most powerful weapon officials possess: public trust.”
■ March 17: “Governors led as president minimized pandemic.”
■ March 21: “Intelligence officials’ early alarms about possible pandemic went unheeded.”
■ March 23: “Trump’s lagging response widens rift with city and state leaders.”
■ March 24: “Trump may ditch safety guidelines to jolt economy.” From inside the article: “…defying public health experts who have warned that doing so risks accelerating the spread of the novel coronavirus or even allowing it to rebound.”
■ March 25: “PRESIDENT WANTS U.S. ‘OPENED’ SOON; Others warn that would fuel pandemic, deaths.”
■ March 25: “Cuomo assails federal response as he warns of hospital onslaught.”
■ March 27: “Governors frustrated with offer of ‘backup.’”
■ March 27: “Self-isolation leaves U.S. out of customary leadership position.”
■ March 29: “States’ needs overwhelm unprepared stockpile.”
■ March 30: “‘They didn’t move fast enough’; Frustrated by the federal government’s response to the outbreak, local officials acted on their own.”
■ April 1: “States grapple with uneven distribution of equipment.”
■ April 3: “Trump’s crisis response short on consistency, long on blame.”
■ April 3: “Inside the mask crunch: Federal hesitation, industry fears.”
■ April 4: “Trump tightens restrictions at Mexican border; SOME MIGRANT PROTECTIONS SUSPENDED.”
■ April 4: “For weeks, scientists’ alarm over flawed test grew; Bureaucratic demands, administration’s refusal to pivot fast led to dismay.”
■ April 4: “Millions spent on mask readiness yield no help now.”
■ April 4: “U.S.’s scramble to scoop up supplies rankles allies.”
■ April 5: “70 days of denial, delays and dysfunction; From the White House to the CDC, political and institutional failures cascaded as the virus spread. Despite being better prepared than many countries, the U.S. saw opportunities to mitigate the crisis slip away.”
■ April 5: “Once again, government is caught unprepared.”
■ April 6: “Snags in disbursing federal relief worry firms, individuals.”
■ April 7: “Trump relies on impulse in push for unproven drug.”
■ April 8: “Stimulus watchdog removed as Trump subverts oversight.”
■ April 9: “President’s ethos in sharp relief amid crisis; Hostility to criticism, hunger for praise are central to his response.”
■ April 10: “White House seeks easing of shutdown in May, but some fear 2nd viral wave.”
■ April 10: “Nearly 10,000 ‘expulsions’ of migrants over 3 weeks.”
■ April 11: “Plans to contain virus emerge in bottom-up effort.” From inside the article: “A national plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and return America to jobs and classrooms is emerging — but not from the White House.”
■ April 11: “Small-business relief hurt by a rocky rollout.”
■ April 12: “Lots of players, but no consensus on a game plan.”
■ April 13: “GOP touts mail voting as Trump attacks it.”
■ April 15: “President’s name to be printed on relief checks; Unprecedented move injects partisanship into stimulus, critics say.”
■ April 16: “Executives paint push to reopen nation as haphazard; Trump’s efforts to enlist industry leaders have gotten off to rocky start.”
■ April 17: “Slow pace of federal aid is worsening downtown.”
■ April 18: “Trump fomenting defiance of strictures.”
■ April 18: “Staffing, antiquated technology slow the delivery of virus relief.”
■ April 19: “Contamination at CDC lab delayed testing rollout.”
■ April 20: “U.S. experts at WHO chronicled virus’s rise; Real-time stream of data undercuts Trump claim of information withheld.”
■ April 20: “FDA never vetted dozens of for-sale antibody tests.”
■ April 22: “As U.S. deports infected migrants, worries grow.”
■ April 22: “Testing gap shows limit to state-by-state approach.”
■ April 23: “Scientists at Trump’s side have to toe a difficult line.”
■ April 25: “Outcry, warnings over Trump’s new cure idea.”
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11 Comments
3 years ago
TDS, it is real
3 years ago
Still say as I said during the Elections arrest the false media administration for false propaganda been a conspiracy to undermine a sitting Government
3 years ago
Only 25 to 1? I guess I missed the 1 🙂
Actually the “positive” headlines were also subtle attacks on Trump.
I’ve don’t recall a single positive headline about Trump from them.
3 years ago
The WP is BS. This is something that has never happened in our lifetime. Trump has to make decisions and act as this fluid situation presents it’s self. I’m pretty sure they are just condemning without offering any thoughts on viable solutions, which means they’re whining, just like all the other left wing fake news outlets. I still think this thing is way overblown with much help from rags like the WP, but overall under the circumstances I feel the president is doing a good job, as usual.
3 years ago
Reply to
anonQ
When all those people were dropping dead from the flu….where was the “heavy illegal hand” of the Federal Government then and now?
I have a very bad feeling that this has been planned with the Chicoms for quite some time.
3 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
I fully agree. Notice nobody has been “dropping dead in their tracks” lately? I think this is another power grab like 9/11.
3 years ago
This is Jeff Bezos’ 100% owned operation.He bought it.He finances it,and he is responsble for every last word it prints and utters. When you buy from Amazon you are supporting this cabal of lies and deceit.
3 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
Problem……if you quit Amazon….where do you go? They had made themselves indispensable.
They’ve pretty much shut down Mom and Pop operations….they, WalMart, and Target have taken over everything.
3 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
There are thousands of online competitors to Amazon. Here’s one I shop at https://rewardsbonanza.com
3 years ago
Isn’t that paper Jeff Bezos’ rag? Why would anyone be shocked or upset that a Globalist far-left paper would spread misinformation and not report the REAL NEWS?
The real fools are the ones who work there and the people who buy the paper.
3 years ago
fake news
