On the 100-day mark in President Trump’s second time period, it is obvious as soon as once more that the night newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC are organized to cowl Trump as negatively as attainable. A brand new NewsBusters examine finds protection of Trump has been 92 p.c damaging. 4 years in the past, Biden protection was 59 p.c constructive. Wealthy Noyes explains the distinction.
Remember that the quantity of Trump protection — 899 tales making up 1,716 minutes — interprets into extra voluminous damaging protection. Biden drew solely 726 minutes in 2021. Trump has granted a lot broader entry to the press — and it appears to be like like he has been punished for it. Biden didn’t endure for hiding away from the press.
There is similar distinction within the 2017 examine — Trump drew 1,900 minutes of protection, and 89 p.c of it was damaging. Keep in mind that all of the politician statements are excluded from the depend, so it focuses on the extra “goal” or “unbiased” sources like reporters, their consultants, and common residents.
Trump’s most dramatic success — securing the border — barely moved the needle. Out of practically 4 hours (233 minutes) of night information airtime dedicated to immigration, these newscasts spent simply 3.5 minutes letting viewers know simply how a lot Trump has lowered border crossings. “What was as soon as a report inflow, now a trickle,” NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez acknowledged on the February 7 Nightly Information.
Trump’s protection was 92.2 p.c damaging, however his aides had been additionally coated hypernegatively: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confronted 89% damaging press, DOGE architect Elon Musk was slammed with 96% damaging protection, and Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth obtained a unanimous 100% dangerous press from the networks. That is solely throughout Trump’s presidency, not within the contentious preliminaries earlier than the inauguration.
Musk drew a flood of damaging soundbites from federal staff who had been laid off or had been in worry of layoffs. “I believed, properly, they’re going to take a scalpel to fraud, waste and abuse, not simply hack off your complete limb,” a laid-off FEMA employee advised NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez on March 10. Only one federal worker mentioned one thing pro-DOGE.
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