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Donald Trump was right. He got incredibly negative press coverage.
The Washington Post's The Fix ^ | December 7, 2016 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 12/07/2016 9:40:21 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

One of Donald Trump's hobbyhorses during the presidential campaign and even now that he has emerged as the president-elect is how deeply negative the media coverage of him was during the 2016 race. Turns out he was right, according to a new study out of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

“His coverage was negative from the start [of the general election] and never came close to entering positive territory,” writes Thomas E. Patterson, the Bradlee 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 two best weeks were the ones just preceding the November balloting.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: media; mediabias; trump; wapo
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To: for-q-clinton

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>> “But he did turn it around on the media and now they are hating it.” <<

Yep!


21 posted on 12/07/2016 9:53:58 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He still is.


22 posted on 12/07/2016 9:54:20 AM PST by chris37 (It's time to burn the GOP down.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
Nothing is as dead as the progressive ideas of a lost Democrat Party. Obama became POTUS to destroy the American Republic.

All he (Obama) has done is to destroy both himself, Hillary Clinton and the entire Democrat Party!!! Nancy Pelosi: I don’t think Democrats want a new direction!


23 posted on 12/07/2016 9:54:44 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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To: Grampa Dave

(bad link)

We Are Real, We Are Truthseekers, And We Do Not Accept Mainstream Media Fake News!

Investment Watch Blog ^ | 12/4/2016 | Pamela William

Posted on 12/5/2016, 8:49:57 AM by Non-Compliant_Deplorable

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3501626/posts


24 posted on 12/07/2016 9:55:16 AM PST by SteveH
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To: Grampa Dave

good for belly laughs (except that Pelosi is so corrupt with graft, eg treasure island)


25 posted on 12/07/2016 9:59:09 AM PST by SteveH
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And GOP-e cuckservatives gave them plenty of `ammo’ throughout 2016 for the MSM’s fake news stories, e.g. “Trump is a misogynist!”.
The separation of wheat from chaff remains. We’re now at the point of deciding what kind of party will remain.
McCain and the rest can get on board or pound sand, but no more of this: `We’ll caucus with the Democrats on this one’ BS.


26 posted on 12/07/2016 9:59:54 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Grampa Dave; Doctor Raoul
This brings back memories. This time, I think your post is correct.

Dinosaur Media Death WatchTM

It was the great Doctor Raoul who originated it.

27 posted on 12/07/2016 10:00:35 AM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You need a study to figure that out?

That’s like needing a study to figure out water is wet.


28 posted on 12/07/2016 10:01:17 AM PST by aquila48
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To: for-q-clinton

He got tons of free publicity during the primaries (the other candidates complained) because the media thought hilLIARy would be able to beat him.


29 posted on 12/07/2016 10:02:44 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Definitely should not be past tense.

Up here in Maine the “major” papers are extremely biased against Trump and our governor, and make no attempt to hide it.

For example, instead of making a headline “Trump calls for flag-burning ban”, they actually attempt to contradict and discredit him RIGHT IN THE HEADLINE: “Trump calls for flag-burning ban, even though it’s unconstitutional”. I kid you not, saw this and similar ones repeatedly.

They probably have to put it in the headlines because no one is likely to read their moronic biased articles. Utterly worthless rags except for odd bits of local news, like what building burned down.


30 posted on 12/07/2016 10:05:12 AM PST by Mr. Dough (Who was the greater military man, General Tso or Col. Sanders?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The important question is not how negative the coverage was, but how accurate and comprehensive it was, and whether his opponents got similar coverage.


31 posted on 12/07/2016 10:05:38 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The media see the handwriting on the the wall. Trump won despite the media throwing everything they have at him. He DOES NOT NEED THEM.


32 posted on 12/07/2016 10:06:06 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Red Badger

I file this article in my “Once again the media proves water is wet” file.

I found it most interesting that there was no me mention of the media personality who posted on Facebook (?) that it was the media’s duty to prevent Trump’s election and that media ethics dealing with impartiality and fir reporting had to be suspended. Or, was this the first example of “false” news?


33 posted on 12/07/2016 10:06:33 AM PST by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s the WaPo...has to be ‘fake news’.


34 posted on 12/07/2016 10:07:08 AM PST by glasseye
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He was/is smart enough to know that there is no such THING as “bad” coverage.

Pure Jujitsu. What they meant as takedown just made him stronger.


35 posted on 12/07/2016 10:11:36 AM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: glasseye

And the negative coverage continues daily. The “crooked media” will hound Trump with their dishonest garbble his entire initial 4 years and then continue should he go to 8 yrs. Then again, Like former VP Cheny told them, “We don’t need you anymore”. (Gotta love that line)


36 posted on 12/07/2016 10:14:16 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, but because it was war they gave him a tremendous amount of free coverage. Putin may not be the only judo champ on the world stage. now.


37 posted on 12/07/2016 10:19:02 AM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: for-q-clinton

Quantify “good”! If snarky, arrogant fake news propagaters cheering him on because they thought he was stupid and would lose in a landslide to Hillary is what you consider “good”, then you are correct!


38 posted on 12/07/2016 10:34:02 AM PST by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: Nip

Chris SizzleLean thinks he has scored a huge scoop.


39 posted on 12/07/2016 10:35:36 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: kingu

If you read the comments on the story you get what the left really thinks. Stuff like:

You don’t positively report on sh!t. You don’t positively report on rabid dogs. Etc, etc.


40 posted on 12/07/2016 10:46:45 AM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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