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Those who watch ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts saw "150 TIMES" more negative comments about President Trump than Joe Biden, the presumptive Democrat nominee in this year's presidential election, according to officials with the Media Research Center.
Spokesman Rich Noyes wrote at the organization's Newsbusters page that the MRC reviewed every mention of President Trump and former Vice President Biden from June 1 through July 31, including weekends.
The programs targeted were ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News."
The results were unique, he explained.
"I’ve been studying the news media and elections for more than 35 years. Trust me — there’s never been anything like it," he wrote.
The programs focused 512 minutes of airtime on the president, nine times as much as the 58 minutes given Biden.
"The extra airtime devoted to Trump consisted almost entirely of anchors and reporters criticizing the president. During these two months, our analysts documented 668 evaluative statements about the president, 95 percent of which (634) were negative, vs. a mere five percent (34) that were positive. Using the same methodology … we found very few evaluative statements about Joe Biden — just a dozen, two-thirds of which (67%) were positive."
He continued, "Do the math, and viewers heard 150 TIMES more negative comments about Trump than Biden. That’s not news reporting — that’s a negative advertising campaign in action."
A chart by the MRC described the situation as "The most biased campaign coverage in history."
"These networks chose to aim most of their attention and nearly all of their negative coverage on Trump, so Biden escaped any scrutiny of his left-wing policy positions, past job performance or character," the report said.
"If you consider the evening newscasts a reliable gauge of the liberal media at large (cable news, big newspapers, etc.), it means Biden has enjoyed an army of so-called journalists conducting a massive negative information campaign against his opponent, while he is sheltered from any scrutiny," the report said.
The benefits for the Democrat including that reports on allegations from former staffer Tara Reade that Biden sexually assaulted her in the 1990s "completely disappeared from his evening news coverage in June and July."
Further, his plans, "which by his own admission would take his administration farther to the Left than the very liberal Obama administration — received a meager 5 minutes, 22 seconds of airtime."
Not one second of that was critical analysis from any journalist, the report said.
There were no mentions of "left-wing," no explanation about how Biden would raise the $4 trillion in new taxes he wants, since coverage of Biden include large sections of his criticisms of Trump.
Explained the report, "No presidential candidate — not even Barack Obama in 2008 — has ever been on the receiving end of such a wide array of media favors. (While Obama received highly positive coverage, there was no massive media effort to destroy his GOP opponent, Senator John McCain.) While the former vice president sits snugly in his basement before his nomination later this week, the entire liberal 'news' media complex have spent the summer on the attack against his opponent, even as they refuse to report anything negative about Biden himself."
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