The three broadcast TV networks have done an about-face in their coverage of the president since Joe Biden took office, airing mostly positive stories, compared with their mostly negative treatment of his predecessor, Donald Trump, a new study found.
Media Research Center analysts reviewed the evening news coverage by ABC, CBS, and NBC of the fledgling Biden administration and found it totaled about 726 minutes, or about 18% of all evening news airtime during the period reviewed.
The majority of news coverage of Biden pertained to the federal government's COVID-19 response, his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief spending bill, and the illegal immigration crisis at the southern border.
A similar study from four years ago found 93% negative coverage of the Trump administration's immigration policies.
About 650 minutes out of 726 of news coverage of the Biden administration examined policy issues, compared with 45% of Trump administration coverage during its early weeks.
The three legacy news outlets spent more than nine minutes on the disputed size of Trump's crowd on Inauguration Day in 2017, and 19 minutes on Trump's claim "That Hillary Clinton had benefited from illegally cast votes in the 2016 election." They spent about 98 minutes of coverage on Trump's assertions in March 2017 and thereafter that President Barack Obama's administration wiretapped the Trump Tower late in the 2016 campaign.
"Look what we did. We [CNN] got Trump out. I am 100% going to say it, and I 100% believe that if it wasn't for CNN, I don't know that Trump would have got voted out. I came to CNN because I wanted to be a part of that," Chester said.
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Thursday, April 22, 2021
Broadcast News Covers Biden Positively in Contrast to Trump, Study Finds
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