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An excerpt from that Harvard study

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by: Ruger5 Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 6 years ago   May 22, '17 9:05am  
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~ 6 years ago   May 22, '17 1:02pm  
It's a sad state when only that one is balanced.  Didn't all news broadcasts relay the NEWS, back not so very long ago?  Give me facts, I will form my own opinion.  I don't need the media telling me what to think.    4951
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~ 6 years ago   May 22, '17 3:16pm  
Mark Joyella ,   CONTRIBUTORI cover political media--and media politics.  Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.PauseUnmuteCurrent Time0:24/Duration Time3:22Loaded: 0%Progress: 0% ShareFullscreenAndrew Harrer/BloombergIf your favorite football team gets destroyed by another team, and the local newspaper writes a story about the game, is the resulting news story--which paints an ugly picture of your team's performance--an example of the newspaper's bias against your beloved team?Of course not.But that's essentially what some conservative media believe when it comes to coverage of the Trump White House. In their view, since most coverage of Trump is negative, that proves the media is biased against the president."Harvard Study Reveals Huge Extent of Anti-Trump Media Bias" screams a headline by Heatstreet that was picked up by The Drudge Report Friday:Academics at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzed coverage from Trump’s first 100 days in office across 10 major TV and print outlets.They found that the tone of some outlets was negative in as many as 98% of reports, significantly more hostile than the first 100 days of the three previous administrations.Well, yes, the "tone" of stories about Donald Trump have tended to be fairly negative overall. But the negative tone is no more proof of bias than coverage of Trump's presidency could be considered proof of bias in favor of the president.A report from the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center of Media, Politics and Public Policy found Trump dominated media coverage in the first 100 days of his presidency, with three times the amount of coverage compared to recent presidents.Shorenstein Center reportThe report found news coverage of Trump was significantly more negative in tone than that of previous administrations.But isn't CNN, at the top of the list with 93% of its stories deemed negative, clearly biased? InfoWars sure thought so, calling the study proof of "overwhelming anti-Trump media bias," while the American Thinker said the study's results proved "a shocking level of media bias against President Trump...the extreme percentage of negative coverage of the president is absolutely breathtaking."But breathtakingly negative media coverage doesn't equate to "a shocking level of media bias." Remember, the study looked at tone. Here's how the researchers defined it:Tone is judged from the perspective of the actor. Negative stories include stories where the actor is criticized directly. An example is a headline story where Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer criticized Trump when the Labor Department’s April economic report showed that fewer jobs were created than had been predicted. Schumer was quoted as saying, in part: “Eleven weeks into his administration, we have seen nothing from President Trump on infrastructure, on trade, or on any other serious job-creating initiative.” Negative stories also consist of stories where an event, trend, or development reflects unfavorably on the actor. Examples are the stories that appeared under the headlines “President Trump’s approval rating hits a new low”and “GOP withdraws embattled health care bill, handing major setback to Trump, Ryan.”Is it bias to report that the president's approval ratings are historically low, or that Trump's efforts to enact his policies have been delayed and overwhelmed by constant questions about Russia, the firing of FBI Director James Comey and other self-inflicted wounds?When your company delivers a product that doesn't work, and customers get angry about it, it's not biased for reporters to tell the story--which would clearly be "negative" in tone.The stories reviewed for the Harvard report weren't exactly slam pieces, as the people interviewed or speaking were almost exclusively Republicans:Trump did most of the talking. He was the featured speaker in nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of his coverage. Members of the administration, including his press secretary, accounted for 11 percent of the sound bites. Other Republicans, including Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, accounted for 4 percent. Altogether, Republicans, inside and outside the administration, accounted for 80 percent of what newsmakers said about the Trump presidency.The simple fact remains that Trump loves media coverage--and the media loves covering Trump. And he's getting exactly what he has worked for: he's the top story day in and day out. As the report details, "reporters are tuned to what’s new and different, better yet if it’s laced with controversy. Trump delivers that type of material by the shovelful."That Trump--doing most of the talking himself, or through his surrogates--manages to produce such negative coverage may speak more about the man than it does the media."The fact that Trump has received more negative coverage than his predecessor is hardly surprising," the Harvard report says. "The early days of his presidency have been marked by far more missteps and miss-hits, often self-inflicted, than any presidency in memory, perhaps ever."Mark Joyella is a journalist, writer and public speaker; you can follow him on Twitter and Facebook, and watch his vlog on YouTube. 4951
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~ 6 years ago   May 22, '17 9:02pm  
The media is headquartered in big markets..We've known about this extreme bias since Reggie Bush won the heisman. 4951
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