A new study recently conducted by the Pew Research Center found that Trump's media coverage in his first 60 days of presidency was far more negative than past presidents. As shown in the picture attached on the right, the percentage of stories from the first 60 days of presidency that had an overall negative assessment of Trump was 62%. This is a significantly higher number than Obama, Bush and Clinton (Obama=20%, Bush=28%, and Clinton=28%). The number of stories than had an overall positive assessment of Trump were just 5%. Researcher who conducted the study selected sites with larger audiences. These sites included newspapers, radio station outlets, websites, and nightly and evening new programs from cable and broadcast TV. The research also found other discrepancies as well. An article by Max Londberg that described these findings explains, "Compared with the three prior presidencies, coverage of Trump's early days in office moved further away from a focus on the policy agenda and more towards character and leadership." Only 31 percent of stories covered policy agenda from Trump, compared to 50 percents with Obama, 65 percent with Bush and 58 percent with Clinton.
*News Article: http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article176797431.html
I think he was right. He is definitely covered way more than other presidents for everything except policy and politics.However, one might say he brings this upon himself. Most of the negative coverage comes from what he says or tweets. He gives the media the ammunition and trust me, they will us it.
ReplyDeleteThis was an interesting post! I tend to agree with Ngosa that at least some of this negative coverage is brought on by himself but certainly not to the extent these numbers show. I remember even after the inauguration for two days some media outlets were talking about how he didn't stand by the limo to wait on his wife. Does something like that need to be covered to that extent , I don't think so.
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