There was too much news for just one post this morning...
Newsbusters:
As President Trump approaches the end of his first 100 days in office, he has received by far the most hostile press treatment of any incoming American president, with the broadcast networks punishing him with coverage that has been 89% negative. The networks largely ignored important national priorities such as jobs and the fight against ISIS, in favor of a news agenda that has been dominated by anti-Trump controversies and which closely matches what would be expected from an opposition party.
For example, President Trump’s push to invigorate the economy and bring back American jobs received a mere 18 minutes of coverage (less than one percent of all airtime devoted to the administration), while his moves to renegotiate various international trade deals resulted in less than 10 minutes of TV news airtime.
Eight years ago, in contrast, the broadcast networks rewarded new President Barack Obama with mainly positive spin, and spent hundreds of stories discussing the economic agenda of the incoming liberal administration.
For this study, MRC analysts reviewed all of ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening news coverage of Trump and his new administration from January 20 through April 9, including weekends. Coverage during those first 80 days was intense, as the networks churned out 869 stories about the new administration (737 full reports and 132 brief, anchor-read items), plus an additional 140 full reports focused on other topics but which also discussed the new administration.
In their defense, if you looked at a truly scandalous president, let's say Richard Nixon in 1973, you would see this kind of news coverage from the big three tv networks. However, Trump doesn't have a Watergate-level conspiracy. At most, he has the made-up Russian election hacking conspiracy, which the Media have still failed to prove.
Which leads us to one of the few rational voices from the Left:
Real Clear Politics:
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni moderates a 'Times Talks' discussion between legendary feminist Camille Paglia and 'Watch What Happens Live' host Andy Cohen about life in the Trump era.But Andy Cohen had the most telling statement about the lack of introspection on the Left:
Paglia says Bruni's newspaper and the Democratic Party still have "soul searching" left to do about why they called 2016 wrong. "It is incumbent upon the defeated party to pull itself together, or else we're going to get the reelection of the present administration," she said.
"I didn't take him seriously at all," she said about the early days of the Trump campaign. "And then, shortly after the very first Republican debate, I saw Diamond & Silk, the African-American sisters doing a pro-Trump attack on Megyn Kelly on their podcast, and... I suddenly saw the populism, and from that moment forward, I could feel the momentum of it."
"The New York media was in an absolute bubble about this," she added.
...[Trump] was talking to people in a way that they were connecting with, and the thing that is so upsetting to me and a lot of people is that facts don't matter anymore. And he can lie and lie and lie, and it is his own truth, and it is funny you said you think he could be reelected.If you are watching a debate between two sides, and you know for a fact that one side (the Democrats in this case) is lying to you, it then becomes moot whether the other side (the Republicans) is lying.
Then it becomes about results, and the Democrats already failed. So-called facts don't matter when the results are failure. You can list excuses for why Democrats failed until you are blue in the face, but that doesn't change the TRUTH of the failure.
Mind you, this doesn't excuse Trump for lying. But it does explain why voters overlook it.
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