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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Even the positive things that they would say were always in the form of a back handed compliment.
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.
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.
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!”
SHAZZAM!!
No doubt about it. All Out War!
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