Saturday, December 10, 2016

Trump Owes The Media Nothing — Here's Why

IBD ^ | December 9,2016 

Media Bias: The media dropped the ball during the last campaign with its overwhelmingly negative coverage of the major candidates, especially Donald Trump. That's not the conclusion of some disgruntled conservative media watchdog, but of a new report from Harvard University's impeccably liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
You know when left-of-center media watchdogs see media bias against a conservative candidate it must be really egregious. And the respected Shorenstein Center's report found that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took their share of hard hits by the media. But Trump came in for especially vicious treatment. "His coverage was negative from the start and never came close to entering positive territory," said Thomas E. Patterson, a professor of government and the press at Harvard. "During his best weeks, the coverage ran 2-to-1 negative over positive. In his worst weeks, the ratio was more than 10-to-1. If there was a silver lining for Trump, it was that his best weeks were the ones just preceding the November balloting."
As the Washington Post noted, "CBS had the most negative coverage and Fox News Channel the least negative, but the differences between the two were not vast."
In other words, Trump was treated with scarcely concealed contempt by nearly everyone in the media. Not only were his chances of winning the presidency ridiculed, but the very idea that the businessman-TV huckster-billionaire could add anything to the public debate over our government's many failures struck many as absurd.
Average Americans picked up on the bias. A Quinnipiac University poll in late October found that 55% of likely voters said the press was biased against Trump. "These findings suggest most voters are aware of the media shenanigans —
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