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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: 2ndDivisionVet

Even the positive things that they would say were always in the form of a back handed compliment.


41 posted on 12/07/2016 10:49:22 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: PROCON; Doctor Raoul
Dinosaur Media Death WatchTM

It was the great Doctor Raoul who originated it.

Thanks, sometimes I have a hard time remembering what I had for breakfast or what I wanted for lunch.

42 posted on 12/07/2016 11:16:02 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: RummyChick
Trump should really thank them. The dishonest all out media coverage helped him get elected. There is a great photo of all guns pointing at trump from media..gope etc. He was the underdog. America said...enough!


43 posted on 12/07/2016 11:17:53 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: 2ndDivisionVet

He is basically saying that Trump got heavy negative coverage and deserved it. Never mind that there is another side to these things. Chris is so completely partisan he cannot conceive of people disagreeing with him without imagining them as frothing at the mouth, knuckle dragging, unthinking and hate filled. News media persons no longer develop the ability to see and argue the other side that would give them perspective and bring more balanced coverage.


44 posted on 12/07/2016 11:40:09 AM PST by Flying Circus (God help us!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think we have witnessed our first hint of the new paradigm.

That’s Jeff Bezos realizing “Oh, sh*t, I’d better walk this back fast or President Trump is gonna demolish Amazon!”


45 posted on 12/07/2016 11:45:11 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

SHAZZAM!!


46 posted on 12/07/2016 11:56:42 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: BenLurkin
"It was all out war."

No doubt about it. All Out War!

47 posted on 12/07/2016 11:58:23 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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