Politico Magazine’s annual survey of the White House press corps (WHPC) reflects widespread left-wing and partisan Democrat biases across reporters and journalists assigned to the president’s domain.
Sixty-three members of the WHPC were polled for a series of questions by Politico Magazine, some more overtly political and partisan than others
Asked about broad biases in the news media’s coverage of President Donald Trump, 53% of respondents said it has not been biased for or against Trump, 45% of respondents said it has been biased against Trump, and 2% of respondents found it biased in favor of Trump.
Asked to broadly grade the quality of the news media’s coverage of President Donald Trump on a scale of 1 to 10 (from “hopelessly” to “perfectly”), the average response was 6.2.
Asked to grade the degree of the Washington, D.C. news media’s disconnection from “the rest of America” on a scale of 1 to 10 (from “not at all” to “totally”), the average response was 6.0.
Asked which White House correspondents do the best job in covering President Donald Trump, the top response was Maggie Haberman of The New York Times and CNN (also an alumnus of Politico). Other favorites included CNN’s Jim Acosta, and The Washington Post’s Robert Costa, David Fahrenthold and Philip Rucker.
Asked which news media outlets “do the best job,” the top responses were The Washington Post, The New York Times, and CNN.
Asked about political affiliations, 37% of respondents said they hold no political registrations, 37% said they are registered independents, 165 said they are registered Democrats, 5% said they are registered Republicans, and 5% reported their political registration as “other.”
Jeff Mason, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and Reuters’ White House Correspondent, denied that his contemporaries were largely biased in favor of left-wing and Democrat politics during a Monday interview with Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson. He insisted that his contemporaries’ professional conduct in their capacities as reporters and journalist is mostly “neutral” without “bias.”
The aforementioned news media outlets all present themselves as politically objective and non-partisan in their presentation of information.
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