Watching the broadcast news networks report on campaigns makes you think they’re not creating news as much as they’re trying to make the political weather.On every day, in every way, they labor to place the blackest clouds over the heads of President Donald Trump and the Republicans.
Good news is not news.There is no balance of good and bad.Any hint of neutrality is despised as "normalizing" Trump.
Nonpartisanship somehow becomes partisanship.So, resistance against Trump is the norm.
A Media Research Center study of the 2024 campaign from July 21 through Oct.25 found ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts punished Trump with 85% negative coverage.
Meanwhile, the Democrat nominee, Kamala Harris, received 78% positive coverage.One choice sounded like doom, and the other was painted as hope and joy and "vibes."With that kind of stark difference in tone, does that sound like news, or campaign advertising?HUGH HEWITT: LEGACY MEDIA LEFT HALF OF AMERICA OUT.
FOX NEWS LET THEM INLeading the themes two years ago was the Jan.6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including Trump’s insistence that the 2020 election was rigged – 47 minutes of coverage.
Another 30 minutes was spent amplifying claims that Trump is a "danger to democracy" and/or a "fascist."President Donald Trump delivers remarks at his Michigan rally commemorating the first 100 days of his second term.(Getty Images)It's happening again in 2026.
The Media Research Center just found ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from Sept.28 to Oct.
26 gave Trump and the Republicans almost 57 minutes of negative coverage on the evening news, while the Democrats received almost 19 minutes of negative coverage – a three-to-one ratio.That math could be a little misleading, since the bad scandal news for Democrats, like the immigration agents raiding the home of Rep.
Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., came wrapped in framing against the Trump administration for doing this in the closing weeks of an election.(These results came before t...