"The MRC, which regularly blasts out signs of media bias on its 'Newsbusters' website, reported the '91%' statistic cited by Trump when it analyzed network news coverage in September, October and November.
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center, no conservative lapdog, released a broader report after Trump's first 100 days in office and found a similar result.
It analyzed all coverage of Trump in the print editions of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post; the main newscasts of CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC; and a trio of European outlets that included The UK’s Financial Times and BBC, and Germany’s ARD.
The result: Fully 80 per cent of non-'neutral' coverage about Trump was negative, and just 20 per cent was positive.
CNN, NBC and CBS – in that order – aired the least positive news about the president, each of them registering in the single-digit percentages.
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Matt Drudge, the Internet publisher behind the influential Drudge Report website, posted a rare personal tweet on Wednesday morning to warn about what might follow from the White House.
'I fear the future result of Trump’s crusade on "fake news" will be licensing of all reporters,' Drudge wrote, noting that Democrats 'already floated this in the senate pre-Trump.'
'The mop up on this issue is going to be excruciating,' he predicted.
In 2013, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein proposed amending a media 'shield' law considered by Congress in order to declare that only 'paid' journalists should be protected."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5709197/Trump-asks-away-credentials-White-House-TV-reporters.html
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center, no conservative lapdog, released a broader report after Trump's first 100 days in office and found a similar result.
It analyzed all coverage of Trump in the print editions of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post; the main newscasts of CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC; and a trio of European outlets that included The UK’s Financial Times and BBC, and Germany’s ARD.
The result: Fully 80 per cent of non-'neutral' coverage about Trump was negative, and just 20 per cent was positive.
CNN, NBC and CBS – in that order – aired the least positive news about the president, each of them registering in the single-digit percentages.
...
Matt Drudge, the Internet publisher behind the influential Drudge Report website, posted a rare personal tweet on Wednesday morning to warn about what might follow from the White House.
'I fear the future result of Trump’s crusade on "fake news" will be licensing of all reporters,' Drudge wrote, noting that Democrats 'already floated this in the senate pre-Trump.'
'The mop up on this issue is going to be excruciating,' he predicted.
In 2013, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein proposed amending a media 'shield' law considered by Congress in order to declare that only 'paid' journalists should be protected."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5709197/Trump-asks-away-credentials-White-House-TV-reporters.html