SECTIONS THE CORNER National Review LOGIN The Number 1 Reason Banks Don't Recommend Reverse Mortgages Sponsored | NewRetirement Blog Take Advantage Of 25% Off AARP Membership Sponsored | AARP Don't Turn Off Your Computer Until You've Done This… Sponsored | Web Life Advice ‘Conceptual Penis’ Hoax Published in Peer Reviewed Journal Four Pinocchios for Senator Harris Monty Python and the Germans Sponsored Links by THE CORNER THE ONE AND ONLY. Report: Eighty Percent of Media Coverage on Trump is Negative SHARE ARTICLE ON FACEBOOKSHARE TWEET ARTICLETWEET PLUS ONE ARTICLE ON GOOGLE PLUS+1 PRINT ARTICLE ADJUST FONT SIZEAA by AUSTIN YACK May 22, 2017 6:09 PM @AUSTINYACK While speaking at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s graduation ceremony last week, President Donald Trump said, “No politician in history — and I say this with great surety — has been treated worse or more unfairly” by the media. Surely, Trump’s assertion is questionable. According to a report released last week from Harvard Kennedy School, however, “Trump’s coverage during his first 100 days was negative even by the standards of today’s hyper-critical press.” Eighty percent of the news coverage in Trump’s first 100 days was negative. “In no week did the coverage drop below 70 percent negative and it reached 90 percent negative at its peak,” wrote Thomas E. Patterson, the author of the report. Patterson examined news coverage from seven U.S. media outlets: CNN, NBC, CBS, Fox News, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He also assessed the tone in which European media outlets covered Trump by including in his research the Financial Times, BBC (Britain’s public-service broadcaster), and ARD (Germany’s public-service broadcaster). “CNN and NBC’s coverage was the most unrelenting — negative stories about Trump outpaced positive ones by 13-to-1 on the two networks,” Patterson concluded. Fox News was an outlier, as it covered Trump positively 48 percent of the time. Over in Germany, 98 percent of ARD’s reporting on Trump was negative, as its reporters unmistakably framed the news in a way that made Trump seem unfit for office. While “98 percent of [ARD’s] evaluations of Trump’s fitness for office were negative, only 2 percent were positive,” Patterson said. THE CORNER The one and only. FULL BLOG SPONSORED CONTENT Read Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s Tips on Staying Fit for Life, Only in AARP’s New Health Issue AARP Is a Reverse Mortgage Right for You? NewRetirement Fans Stunned As Don Knotts Blurts Out Why He Left 'The Andy Griffith Show’ Definition The one reason Amazon Channels is a "better value" than Netflix and Hulu Business Insider New AARP Members Save More: Join For Only $12 For The First Year With Auto Renew AARP Rarely Seen Historical Photos Not Suitable For History Books Definition Did You Know The Right Real Estate Agent Can Get You 15% More and Sell 2x Faster? Homelight Capitol Hill Gives Homeowners 55+ Who Owe Less Than $625k A Once-In-A-Lifetime… LowerMyBills.com Recommended by MORE STORIES Michael Flynn’s Decision to Plead the Fifth Tells Us Nothing about His Guilt ‘Wops’ Supreme Court Strikes Down Majority-Minority Districts for Being Majority-Minority Report: Eighty Percent of Media Coverage on Trump is Negative In 100 Days, ICE Officers Arrest over 41,000 Illegal Immigrants Here’s How Congress Can Fix the Way We Investigate Presidents UP NEXT UP NEXT UP NEXT Trump: Joe Lieberman 'frontrunner' for FBI Director 00:35 00:40 Fox News Founder Roger Ailes dead at 77 Fox News’ Bob Beckel fired for racist comments Now PlayingTrump: Joe Lieberman 'frontrunner' for FBI Director Trump calls special Russia investigation counsel a 'witch hunt'0:49 James Comey reportedly convinced Trump tried to influence him0:42 The Guardrails of American Democracy Can’t Contain Trump0:57 Russian foreign minister denies talking about Comey with Trump0:41 3 things to watch on Trump’s foreign trip0:56 Trump taking away Sean Spicer's public appearances 0:40 Trump to urge Muslim leaders to fight terror in Saudi speech0:41 Powered by GET OUR NEWSLETTERS TRENDING ON NATIONAL REVIEW Trump’s ‘Principled Realism’ Is Not Very Realistic about Islam HuffPo: The ‘Male Romper’ Is Offensive Because Rompers Should Be Gender-Neutral Leave Jimmy Fallon Alone ABOUT INSTITUTE ADVERTISE CONTACT NR FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ PRIVACY
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