Donald Trump, the man the media loves to hate
Donald Trump and Chris MatthewsThe liberal mainstream media that pulled its knives out for Donald Trump keeps stabbing away in the dark.
"This is a press that sees itself as the opposition to President Trump," observes media analyst Rich Noyes at the Media Research Center. "Every time he does something, they go find voters or experts who don't like it or they just say flat out that they don't like it."
What is most damaged by the overwhelmingly negative media coverage of President Trump?
Media's own credibility
Democrats' chances in 2018
The Trump agenda
RINOs (Republicans in name only)
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Noyes and MRC analyzed the "Big Three" networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, and found 90 percent of their post-election coverage has been negative toward the President.
"The coverage is massive," says Noyes, who reports that Trump is getting four times the news coverage that Barack Obama received during the last two years of his presidency.
"In fact," he tells OneNewsNow, "during just the first eight months we looked at, he's gotten more air time than President Obama got in all of 2015 and 2016 combined."
MRC's new analysis was noticed by The Washington Post's own media analyst, Erik Wemple. The ongoing Russia investigation predictably included 94 percent negative stories in 415 minutes of news coverage. But even stories about North Korea's provocative saber-rattling produced 136 minutes of news coverage of which 86 percent was negative toward Trump.
Trump press conferenceIn his story, Wemple also pointed back to a Harvard University study that found media coverage "swamped" positive coverage during Trump's first 100 days in office.
"They know that this is a different kind of president," Noyes says of the media, "and they think that they're responding as professionals to a president who's more controversial in their eyes."
But what's really happening, he adds, is that the media is destroying its credibility with most Americans.
Meanwhile, voter data from so-called swing states shows the Democratic Party is failing to connect with voters on immigration and trade despite the constant barrage of anti-Trump stories, The Washington Free Beacon reported this week.
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"This is a press that sees itself as the opposition to President Trump," observes media analyst Rich Noyes at the Media Research Center. "Every time he does something, they go find voters or experts who don't like it or they just say flat out that they don't like it."
What is most damaged by the overwhelmingly negative media coverage of President Trump?
Media's own credibility
Democrats' chances in 2018
The Trump agenda
RINOs (Republicans in name only)
Vote
View ResultsPolldaddy.com
Noyes and MRC analyzed the "Big Three" networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, and found 90 percent of their post-election coverage has been negative toward the President.
"The coverage is massive," says Noyes, who reports that Trump is getting four times the news coverage that Barack Obama received during the last two years of his presidency.
"In fact," he tells OneNewsNow, "during just the first eight months we looked at, he's gotten more air time than President Obama got in all of 2015 and 2016 combined."
MRC's new analysis was noticed by The Washington Post's own media analyst, Erik Wemple. The ongoing Russia investigation predictably included 94 percent negative stories in 415 minutes of news coverage. But even stories about North Korea's provocative saber-rattling produced 136 minutes of news coverage of which 86 percent was negative toward Trump.
Trump press conferenceIn his story, Wemple also pointed back to a Harvard University study that found media coverage "swamped" positive coverage during Trump's first 100 days in office.
"They know that this is a different kind of president," Noyes says of the media, "and they think that they're responding as professionals to a president who's more controversial in their eyes."
But what's really happening, he adds, is that the media is destroying its credibility with most Americans.
Meanwhile, voter data from so-called swing states shows the Democratic Party is failing to connect with voters on immigration and trade despite the constant barrage of anti-Trump stories, The Washington Free Beacon reported this week.
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Jay Rosen at Press Think:
Most every journalist who covers Trump knows of these things:
1. He isn’t good at anything a president has to do. From the simplest, like pretending to help out in flood relief, to the hardest: making the call when all alternatives are bad. (We’re told he can be charming one-on-one. So maybe that’s his one skill.)
2. He doesn’t know anything about the issues with which he must cope. Nor does this seem to bother him.
3. He doesn’t care to learn. It’s not like he’s getting better at the job, or scrambling to fill gaps in his knowledge.
4. He has no views about public policy. Just a few brute prejudices, like if Obama did it, it was dumb. I do not say he lacks beliefs — and white supremacy may be one — but he has no positions. His political sky is blank. No stars to steer by.
5. Nothing he says can be trusted.
6. His “model” of leadership is the humiliation of others— and threat of same. No analyst unfamiliar with narcissistic personality types can hope to make sense of his actions in office.
It’s not like items 1-6 have been kept secret. Journalists tell us about them all the time. Their code requires that. Simultaneously, however, they are called by their code to respect the voters’ choice, as well as the American presidency, of which they see themselves a vital part, as well as the beat, the job of White House reporting. The two parts of the code are in conflict.
If nothing the president says can be trusted, reporting what the president says becomes absurd. You can still do it, but it’s hard to respect what you are doing. If the president doesn’t know anything, the solemnity of the presidency becomes a joke. That’s painful. If they can, people flee that kind of pain. In political journalism there is enough room for interpretive maneuver to do just that.
This is “normalization.” This is what “ tonight he became president ” is about. This is why he’s called “transactional,” why a turn to bipartisanship is right now being test-marketed by headline writers . This is why “deal-making” is said to be afoot when there is barely any evidence of a deal
I seeded this article this morning. It will get little or no comments because NT is a right wing site.
If it doesnt change there will be an echo chamber here, and a distressing and disturbing one at that.
The echo chamber will be a product of the owner's making.
This is 12 year old bully stuff, gross, stupid, puerile.
This is his idea of fun.
He's 71 years old.
It's hard to take President Trump seriously, when he doesn't hold the office of the president seriously. He's only about his own personal agenda-- money.
I find him to be an embarrassment, over all. Sure, he has had his presidential moments, but they are too few and there are long stretches in between, when he behaves like a spoiled, narcissistic brat. What is his purpose in tweeting that .gif about knocking Hillary Clinton down? She's down-- out of politics. To what end does that .gif serve? NOT a very presidential thing to do!
Seems like the hate is from Trump toward the media. He's a thin-skinned, spoiled toddler who can't meet one of the top pre-requisites of the job of president: dealing with the media with dignity even when they're trashing you. It's always been part of the job. Whining about the media is what lousy presidents like Reagan, Nixon and now Trump, the worst whiner of them all. Hmmm, all republicans. Quelle surprise!