Media Bias? Over 90% of Trump Coverage negative

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Even As Media Whine About Trump, Their Hostile Coverage Shows No Let Up

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As Monday’s throwdown in the White House press room made clear, relations between the President and the press corps are as bad as they have ever been during the Trump administration.

Most journalists seem to put the blame on the administration’s criticisms of the press, with CNN’s Chris Cilizza saying Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’ condemnations were “disheartening” and made him “angry.” A couple of weeks ago, disgraced ex-CBS anchor Dan Rather called the President’s attacks on the news media “disappointing.”

“If you look over the arc of history,” Rather lectured MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle in late November, “presidents who have been very hostile to the press have not wound up very good in terms of having their likeness carved into Mt. Rushmore or anything approaching that....You know that old cliche, if you’re in a hole, stop digging. In terms of his press relations, he just keeps digging.”

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In case you wanted to know what a disgraced CBS anchor that was fired for using falsified documents in an election year report on George W Bush.....

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This week, Rather repeated his complaint to the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart. “A free, a truly free and independent, fiercely independent press, when necessary, is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy,” Rather pontificated, saying of Trump’s attacks: “This has to be unacceptable.”

But as the Media Research Center has been documenting all year, the media have approached the Trump presidency with unrelenting hostility. Our latest numbers show that coverage of Trump on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts in September, October and November was more than 90 percent negative

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In September, there were just 31 pro-Trump statements on the Big Three vs. 359 negative. In October, the number of positive statements grew to 41, while the negative statements swelled to 435.

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