MRC Study: News Bias Against Trump Even WORSE Than We Thought

The Media Research Center’s extensive study of evening news coverage of President Trump by the broadcast news networks found an overwhelmingly negative bias against the Republican president. Among the big takeaways of the analysis is that the media covered the president more in his first 8 months than they covered President Obama during the entirety of his final two years in office, and a remarkable 91% of the coverage of Trump over the summer was negative, surpassing the bias of the coverage of his first three months.

MRC’s analysts reviewed every mention of Trump since his inauguration on Jan. 20 on the three big broadcast networks’ evening news programs: ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News (including weekends). The coverage of Trump, MRC underscores, was both “obsessive” and “aggressive.”