Study: Conservative Media Outlets ‘Less Likely To Challenge’ Trump’s Own Words
- 7 years ago
A new study has found significant differences in the way media outlets covered stories about President Trump’s first 100 days in office based on the partisan leanings of their core audience.
A new study has found significant differences in the way media outlets covered stories about President Trump’s first 100 days in office based on the partisan leanings of their core audience.
“News outlets whose audience leans to the left politically, those whose audience leans to the right and those appealing to a more mixed audience covered a similar news agenda and mostly framed their coverage around character and leadership rather than policy,” according to a news release by the Pew Research Center, which conducted the research.
However, the release goes on to point out key differences, stating, “...outlets with a right-leaning audience cited fewer types of sources in their reporting, offered more positive and fewer negative evaluations of President Donald Trump and his administration, and had reporters who were less likely to challenge something the president said than outlets whose audience leans to the left or those with a more evenly distributed audience.”
The analysis involved 12 more-liberal outlets led by MSNBC, 5 more-conservative outlets led by Fox News, and 7 more-mixed outlets led by CNN.
Meanwhile, a previous Harvard study about media coverage during Trump’s first 100 days found that 80 percent of the press stories about him were negative in tone--which was more than for former Presidents Obama, George W. Bush, and Clinton; however, most featured either quotes from Trump or other fellow Republicans.
Trump has openly blasted the media in the past, calling reporters, “the enemy of the American people” and “among the worst people I've ever met.”
He even said at a Phoenix rally in August that journalists “don't like our country.”
A new study has found significant differences in the way media outlets covered stories about President Trump’s first 100 days in office based on the partisan leanings of their core audience.
“News outlets whose audience leans to the left politically, those whose audience leans to the right and those appealing to a more mixed audience covered a similar news agenda and mostly framed their coverage around character and leadership rather than policy,” according to a news release by the Pew Research Center, which conducted the research.
However, the release goes on to point out key differences, stating, “...outlets with a right-leaning audience cited fewer types of sources in their reporting, offered more positive and fewer negative evaluations of President Donald Trump and his administration, and had reporters who were less likely to challenge something the president said than outlets whose audience leans to the left or those with a more evenly distributed audience.”
The analysis involved 12 more-liberal outlets led by MSNBC, 5 more-conservative outlets led by Fox News, and 7 more-mixed outlets led by CNN.
Meanwhile, a previous Harvard study about media coverage during Trump’s first 100 days found that 80 percent of the press stories about him were negative in tone--which was more than for former Presidents Obama, George W. Bush, and Clinton; however, most featured either quotes from Trump or other fellow Republicans.
Trump has openly blasted the media in the past, calling reporters, “the enemy of the American people” and “among the worst people I've ever met.”
He even said at a Phoenix rally in August that journalists “don't like our country.”