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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)

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: media; mediabias; trump; wapo
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Did Chris have a stroke?
1 posted on 12/07/2016 9:40:21 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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He got the absolute best coverage the media could afford to give him. .....................


2 posted on 12/07/2016 9:41:55 AM PST by Red Badger
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But he got good coverage during the primary. He was the Media’s pick to win the GOP nomination. But he did turn it around on the media and now they are hating it.


3 posted on 12/07/2016 9:42:04 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nothing has changed.

He could give everyone @ CNN/NBC/CBS/ABC a mil and they would still spin it negatively


4 posted on 12/07/2016 9:42:21 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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Negative?

It was all out war.


5 posted on 12/07/2016 9:42:43 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The fifth-column leftist media continues to give aid and comfort to the enemy. The Constitution has a word for that.


6 posted on 12/07/2016 9:43:09 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chris knows being on the outside sucks a lot. He’s throwing out tidbits to say he’s not an asshole and not a hater. But we all know better. Trump does too.


7 posted on 12/07/2016 9:43:52 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Continuing now. There are no news articles, only propaganda.


8 posted on 12/07/2016 9:43:55 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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Dinosaur Media Death WatchTM
9 posted on 12/07/2016 9:44:20 AM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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Chris knows that Trump will pull media credentials from WH pressers and/or briefing, and forget about flying on Air Force One. Trump doesn’t need them. They can get pool pictures and notes. They are part of the swamp that is being drained.


10 posted on 12/07/2016 9:45:11 AM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex)
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The anti-Trump news reports and lies continue today. It won’t change.


11 posted on 12/07/2016 9:45:15 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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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!


12 posted on 12/07/2016 9:46:18 AM PST by RummyChick (Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
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“He was the Media’s pick to win the GOP nomination.”

Because they wanted Hillary to destroy him. How did that work out for the MSM?


13 posted on 12/07/2016 9:48:39 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Election 2016 - Best election ever.)
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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

“The essay I want to share with you is one the most excellent and far-reaching pieces of truth I have ever read. The writer is Carl Herman. Carl Herman is a National Board Certified Teacher of US Government, Economics, and History; also credentialed in Mathematics...he demands a clear vision of the current Mainstream Media hoax that is currently being played upon Alternative Media.

He gives examples of the true hoax of Mainstream Media, which has been played on the American people for a very long time. That is how Alternative Media was born….we had to find our way from the darkness of lies to Light of truth. The Internet is both a positive and negative entity, but Alternative Media has become the positive force of the Internet...”

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

Cheney To CNN’s Barbara Starr: Trump Took Us To Point Where We Don’t Need You Guys Anymore

RCP ^ | 4/12/2016 | Ian Schwartz
Posted on 12/4/2016, 7:51:47 AM by jennychase

I think one of the reasons people get so concerned about the tweets is it is sort of a way around the press. He doesn’t have to rely upon, uh, rely upon — this is the modern era, modern technology. He’s at the point where we don’t need you guys anymore.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3501300/posts


14 posted on 12/07/2016 9:48:40 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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It took a study?

It was patently obvious to anyone with a pulse.

15 posted on 12/07/2016 9:49:15 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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In three weeks, the media will say that they can’t be blamed for coverage of Trump because they write their articles alone, and any excessively negative ratio is the result of independent journalists making rational decisions about the facts in front of them...

Least that’s what the DNC mailing list will tell them to say.


16 posted on 12/07/2016 9:49:44 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: PROCON
This brings back memories. This time, I think your post is correct.

Dinosaur Media Death WatchTM

17 posted on 12/07/2016 9:50:41 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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The USA print and TV media have destroyed themselves, forever!!! The same destruction is now occurring to the entire Democrat Party!!! End of story!!! The Mid-Term elecetions of 2018 will not be at all kind to the entire Democrat Party, unless a massive sea change and shift to the right occcurs....like right now!!!

I would suggest that large numbers of Democrats change political parties (become Republicans) and their politics, if they wish to survive politically. 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!!!


18 posted on 12/07/2016 9:50:45 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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Did Chris have a stroke?

Or we keep waking up to read opeds like this, and wondering what world we are in.


19 posted on 12/07/2016 9:51:39 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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Did Chris have a stroke?

Not really. Read the whole article - basically saying Trump brought it on himself & deserved it.

20 posted on 12/07/2016 9:53:57 AM PST by gubamyster
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