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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
March 3, 2017
Just In: Media Coverage of Trump's first 30 days has been a whopping 88% negative.https://t.co/xNdkA2CPZD pic.twitter.com/5X2A8VWMYH
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) March 2, 2017
88% seems like a low-ball estimate, but I guess this is somewhat scientific.
In the first 30 days (January 20 to February 18), our analysts determined that the President and his team were the subject of 16 hours of coverage on just the Big Three evening newscasts. This equates to more than half (54%) of all of the news coverage during this period.
While most new presidents enjoy a media honeymoon, the tone of Trump’s coverage was nearly as hostile (88% negative) as we found during last year’s presidential campaign (91% negative).
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. 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.
And the networks’ anchors and reporters often injected their own anti-Trump editorial tone into the coverage. “It has been a busy day for presidential statements divorced from reality,” CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley snidely began his February 6 broadcast.
They also made 88 positive statements about him – compared to 674 negative statements.
Lots of 88s…
