{"id":32427,"date":"2018-01-16T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32427"},"modified":"2018-01-16T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:25:09","slug":"how-the-news-media-covers-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32427","title":{"rendered":"How The News Media Covers President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsbusters<\/a> posted an article today analyzing how the major media covers President<\/a> Trump. As I am sure almost everyone is aware, the coverage is almost always negative. I strongly suggest that you follow the link and read the entire article–the statistics are amazing.<\/p>\n

The article includes the following graph:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The conclusions of the article are somewhat frightening:<\/p>\n

The media reaction to Trump\u2019s first year has been so extreme, the public itself has become polarized over the coverage. In September, Gallup<\/a> discovered that record numbers of Democrats<\/a> are reporting \u201ctrust and confidence in the mass media<\/a> to report the news \u2018fully, accurately and fairly,\u2019\u201d with 72 percent of Democrats saying they trusted the press in 2017, compared to just 51 percent who said that a year ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A month later, a Politico<\/em>\/Morning Consult poll<\/a> found that \u201cmore than three-quarters of Republican<\/a> voters, 76 percent, think the news media<\/a> invent stories about Trump and his administration.\u201d That number swells to 85 percent when just Trump supporters are asked the question.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What seems to be happening is that many in the media, including the broadcast networks, have chosen to morph into anti-Trump<\/a> activists. As a result, they provide massive attention to stories that they think make him look bad, give little airtime to more positive aspects of his administration, and punish him with massively negative spin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The polls suggest anti-Trump Democrats love that kind of news, pro-Trump Republicans hate it \u2014 while the national media are cementing their reputation as biased partisans. Their hostility against the White House<\/a> is now so obvious, nobody could possibly take them seriously if they ever again claim to be fair and non-partisan professionals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When politicians (or the media) complain about the divisiveness in America<\/a>, they need look no further than themselves. The lies that the media is telling and the things that the media is choosing to emphasize are not helping inform the public and they are surely not helping to unite us in the common goal of making America a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsbusters posted an article today analyzing how the major media covers President Trump. As I am sure almost everyone is aware, the coverage is almost always negative. I strongly suggest that you follow the link and read the entire article–the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3357,1202,11362,1289,11363,3415,211],"class_list":["post-32427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-gallup","tag-mass-media","tag-president","tag-press-coverage","tag-republican-party-united-states","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32427"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32437,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427\/revisions\/32437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}