President Trump has undoubtedly received the most negative press coverage of any president in American history.
In May, 2017, the Shorenstein Center at Harvard reported that in the first 100 days of his presidency, 80% of the media’s coverage of President Trump was negative, compared to 41% for his predessesor, Barack Obama.
The Shorenstein Center at Harvard
According to the Harvard report, American journalists are not the only ones unfairly covering the President. According to their report, European reporters were more likely than American journalists to directly question Trump’s fitness for office.
It has been a pattern since President Trump was inaugurated well over a year ago. Coverage of the White House on the “Big Three” broadcast networks — ABC, CBS and NBC — remains 91 percent negative, according to a new study by the Media Research Center, which has been tracking the phenomenon since Mr. Trump hit the campaign trail in 2016.
It was over 90 percent hostile then — and remains so now. The trend is unprecedented, according to the analysis.
The conservative press watchdog monitored nightly evening networks newscasts throughout January and February to find that anchors and correspondents uttered 10 times more negative comments about the president than positive statements. Analysts examined over 500 stories.
Out of a total of 712 evaluative comments made on the air, only 65 were positive, or 9 percent. The rest — 647 comments — were negative, amounting to 91 percent. The ongoing Russia collusion investigation was the leading topic of choice, followed by immigration issues, the recent government shutdown, and the White House response to the Parkland student shooting.
