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Trump has DONE IT SUCCESSFULLY ALREADY. He has proven he could achieve true greatness under the worst pressure the nation has ever SEEN applied to any POTUS.
HE DID ALL OF THIS WHILE UNDER UNFAIR AND DISHONEST ATACK FOR FOUR STRAIGHT YEARS!
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Media Trump Hatred Shows In 92% Negative Coverage Of His Presidency: Study
06:10 PM ET 10/10/2018
Anti-Trump Media: To say that the big networks haven't exactly had a love affair with Donald Trump, as they plainly did with President Obama, is an understatement. A new survey shows that not only is coverage of Trump overwhelmingly negative, but the president's biggest accomplishment — the roaring economy — gets almost no attention.
For its report, the Media Research Center did a lot of visual spadework. It viewed some 1,007 evening news stories about the Trump White House on ABC, CBS and NBC from June 1 to Sept. 30. That's the equivalent of about 32.7 hours of coverage, by TV standards an eternity of news time.
What they found was, as Trump himself might say, sad: "Over the summer, the broadcast networks have continued to pound Donald Trump and his team with the most hostile coverage of a president in TV news history — 92% negative, vs. just 8% positive."
Moreover, the very focus of what the media cover is highly selective. Some two-thirds of the Trump coverage came from five topics, including the Russia investigation, immigration, the Brett Kavanaugh nomination, North Korea, and U.S.-Russia relations.
Let's see, whatmissing from that 's list? Oh yes, the one thing that's overwhelmingly positive for President Trump: the economy.
What About The Economy?
Over the four months the MRC watched network TV for all of us, less than 1% of the coverage was on the economy. To be more precise, it was 0.7% of the entire coverage, or 14 minutes. We're in the middle of an economic boom we were told by the very same media people was impossible, but now this miracle doesn't warrant coverage.
Let's just review a little, shall we? The third quarter saw 4.2% GDP growth, and Trump's average is now 3%. Wages are rising, and real median household incomes are now at their highest level ever. As for September's overall unemployment rate of 3.7%, it was the lowest in nearly half a century. Meanwhile, unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanics and Asians are at or near all-time lows.
Look at the late Obama economy and the early Trump economy, and it's like a light went on. Suddenly, businesses were starting up, creating jobs, raising pay, building, buying and selling at a fevered pace.
Tax Cuts And Deregulation
Even many economists on the left have grudgingly agreed that Trump's tax cuts and deregulation set a fire under a stone-cold economy, with some 1.8 million new jobs created in just 21 months. Yet, as far as the network media are concerned, the recovery doesn't really exist. Imagine all this good news happening under President Obama. We would hear the media's hosannas on each and every nightly newscast.
Well, there was one economy-related issue that did pique the networks' interest, and rightly so: Trump's use of tariffs to get other countries to renegotiate unfair trade deals. It received 80 minutes of coverage but, again, not balanced at all: 88% was negative.
We say this because the media are in crisis as never before. They fixate on the president's approval numbers, which are now over 40%, but apparently don't look at their own. In a recent Gallup poll of Americans' confidence in its main institutions, only 20% said they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in TV news. They're even below newspapers, for which only 23% said they had confidence.
Media In Crisis
If the media want to feel good about themselves, there's this: The bottom-dweller in the confidence poll was once again Congress, with only 11% claiming a "great deal/quite a lot" of confidence.
Unfortunately, the Fourth Estate seems eager to relinquish its claim to fairness, balance, evenhandedness and factual truth. Instead, it embraces the increasingly far-left politics of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which has recently veered into socialist territory by pushing Medicare for All, open borders, worker control of corporations, and a host of other crazy ideas that would bring ruin and falling living standards to America.
There was a time when the media at least made an attempt to be fair to both sides in the political debate. Sadly, that time is now dead and gone. And it shows in the contempt many American now have for the media. Even so, don't shed a tear for the media's seriously tarnished reputation: They've brought it on themselves
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