A study from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center of the four weeks encompassing and surrounding the two major-party political conventions makes this obvious. Trump’s news coverage during this period was 75 percent negative; the friendliest week Trump got from the media was the week of the convention itself — when it was “only” 55 percent negative.
Contrast that with the treatment Hillary Clinton received in the same period, which overall was 44 percent positive. Where no news outlet in the Shorenstein study managed to get to 40 percent positive coverage of Trump, all but one (Washington Times) had 40 percent or more positive coverage of Clinton. Four of the 11 media outlets offered better than 50 percent positive coverage to Clinton. While coverage of Trump’s qualifications only generated 22 percent positive coverage, 69 percent of the coverage of Clinton’s leadership qualities was positive.
(H/T: Hot Air)
Three months ago, an MRC Culture study determined that more than twenty TV shows had attacked Donald Trump. Now, with only three weeks until the election, the count has increased to nearly thirty.
From entertainment programming to late night shows, the Republican candidate has been the fodder for laughs and jabs. Jimmy Fallon jokingly declared that Trump was “the best thing that happened to our show,” while Jerrod Carmichael, co-creator of the The Carmichael Show, opined that “the world won’t let you avoid talking” about him. And so, showrunners from every network have tackled the candidate, many attempting to bring him down.
(H/T: NewsBusters)
