A few key points about that Harvard study:
1. It only covered his first 100 days in office.
2. The overall average for non-neutral coverage was 80% negative, 20% positive. For comparison, for the first 100 days, both Clinton and Bush were around 60% negative. While Obama was only 40% negative in his first 100 days, that flipped to ~ 60% negative in his second 100 days.
3. EVEN ON FOX, Trump's coverage was more negative than positive (52% / 48%)!
4. Only 6% of Trump coverage in that time was about Russia/2016 election.
5. Trump's approval rating after 100 days was 42%, compared to Obama (65%), W Bush (62%), Clinton (55%), and HW Bush (56%). Even just based on that, of course news coverage would be more negative for Trump.
6. His first 100 days included the disastrous travel ban roll-out (whether you supported the ban itself or not, the roll-out of it was a complete failure), a failed attempt at Obamacare repeal, his National Security Adviser being forced to resign, and generally a lot of chaos as someone without political experience was new in the job.
7. He attacked the non-Fox press, a lot. Of course they would take offense to that and "fight back" by covering it negatively (which Fox would not).
No doubt non-Fox outlets have somewhat of a left-leaning bias (and some more than others), but holding up that 90% number as a definitive counter to the claim of Fox's extreme Trump/right bias isn't a very well-supported argument.
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Link: Harvard study
Posted: 06/13/2018 at 3:45PM