The Media Research Center (MRC) found that in his first 100 days, President Donald Trump’s administration received 92% of negative coverage from ABC, CBS, and NBC.
The number is worse than that of Trump’s first administration.
MRC dissected 899 stories from the networks between January 20 and April 9:
■ The networks’ highly negative coverage of President Trump stands in stark contrast to the mostly (59%) positive coverage they provided Joe Biden four years ago.■ While TV coverage of Trump’s last term was heavily focused on an array of personal controversies, this year’s coverage has mostly been about serious policy issues, led by tariffs (361 minutes), DOGE (310 minutes) and immigration (233 minutes).■ The networks’ spin on Trump’s tariffs faced 93% negative coverage, while the DOGE cutbacks to government were greeted by 97% negative spin.■ Even on immigration, the issue where the public gives the President his highest ratings, the networks’ spin was 93% negative. Out of nearly four hours (233 minutes) of evening news airtime devoted to immigration, these newscasts spent just 3.5 minutes letting viewers know just how much Trump has reduced border crossings.■ Besides Trump himself, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced 89% negative press, DOGE’s Elon Musk was hit with 96% negative coverage, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth received a unanimous 100% bad press from the networks.
The MRC did not include partisan sources.
When he came into office in 2020, former President Joe Biden had 59% positive coverage compared to 41% negative coverage.
I’m actually shocked the positive number wasn’t higher, but still a YUGE gap.
Of course, the media covered Trump more than Biden: “From January 20 through April 9, 2017, the networks saturated their newscasts with 1,900 minutes of Trump news; during the same time period this year, we tallied a massive 1,716 minutes of coverage. But in 2021, evening news viewers saw only 726 minutes of Biden coverage during these same weeks, less than half of the airtime devoted to either of the new Trump administrations.”
The networks also dumped on Elon Musk: “125 hostile comments, vs. just five supportive ones (or 96% negative spin).”
The networks never provided a positive statement for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth or the National Security Team.
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