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Anonymous ID: 3f0a38 Jan. 15, 2019, 6:40 p.m. No.4772251   🗄️.is 🔗kun

TV Networks’ Coverage of Trump Was 90% Negative in 2018, Study Shows

 

Coverage of Donald Trump’s presidency on the three major TV networks—ABC, CBS, and NBC—was overwhelmingly negative in 2018, just as it was a year earlier, according to a study conducted by the Media Research Center. Excluding neutral statements on the Trump administration, the tone was 90 percent negative versus 10 percent positive for the year, the Media Research Center (MRC) report published Jan. 15 found. Even so, Trump’s approval ratings actually ticked upward during the year to a 42.7 percent approval rating on Dec. 31, from a 40 percent rating on Jan. 1, according to an analysis by RealClearPolitics.

 

Trump’s presidency was again the biggest story of 2018, as in 2017, with almost 87 hours, or 28 percent of all evening news airtime, dedicated to it. Those numbers were, in fact, lower than the 99 hours of coverage in 2017. “To determine the spin of news coverage, our analysts tallied all explicitly evaluative statements about the president or his administration from either reporters, anchors, or non-partisan sources, such as experts or voters,” Rich Noyes, MRC’s research director, explained in the report.

 

Similarly, a 2017 report by Pew Research Center found reporting on Trump has been the most negative compared to other presidents over the past 25 years. Their analysis across 24 different media organizations on the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency revealed that only 5 percent of media reporting during the period was positive.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/tv-networks-coverage-of-trump-90-negative-in-2018_2767472.html

Anonymous ID: 3f0a38 Jan. 15, 2019, 6:45 p.m. No.4772331   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2447 >>2558

4 Media Lies About the Government Shutdown

 

The fake news media loves to lie about President Donald Trump, and they’ve been especially brazen in their dishonesty when it comes to the partial government shutdown over border security. For the last three weeks, the mainstream media has framed the government shutdown as a catastrophe, amplifying the voices of impacted federal workers while ignoring the many federal employees who still want the president to stand firm on border security. While the media has been unfairly critical of Trump throughout his presidency, the degree of journalistic dishonesty has never been higher than it is today. Here are the four biggest lies perpetrated by the press about the border wall debate.

 

1. There Is No Immigration Crisis The fake news media wants to convince the American people that there is no border security crisis, hoping to turn them against Trump’s crusade to secure the border. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough even called Americans who recognize the border crisis “stupid” while accusing the president of being a liar. “[Trump] is going to be telling nothing but lies and falsehoods, and he’s going to be twisting reality,” Scarborough said before the president delivered his Oval Office address to the American people last week. “And at this point I’ve got to say, how stupid are Americans who still believe there’s a crisis on the southern border?

 

CNN’s Jim Acosta also did his best to downplay the president’s claim by posting a widely-mocked video of himself standing next to the border wall in which he inadvertently acknowledged that border walls are effective. “I found some steel slats down on the border,” he said. “But I don’t see anything resembling a national emergency situation.” Of course, there is a real crisis at the border—and the media knows it.

 

Women and children suffer deprivation, exposure, and the constant threat of violence and sexual assault while attempting to cross the border illegally; drug cartels exploit our overstretched border security resources and bring crime to our communities; and American families are robbed of their loved ones by illegal aliens who should never have been allowed in the country. Denying that this problem exists only enables this humanitarian tragedy to continue.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/four-media-lies-about-the-government-shutdown_2767402.html