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TV vs. Trump in 2018: Lots of Russia, and 91% Negative Coverage

So far, 2018 looks an awful lot like 2017 — at least when it comes to the broadcast networks’ hostile approach to Donald Trump. A Media Research Center analysis of the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts in January and February found ten times more negative comments about the President than positive statements, and found the ongoing Russia investigation once again swamped all other topics.

For this study, MRC analysts looked at all 505 evening news stories that mentioned President Trump or his administration in January and February. Out of 851 total minutes of airtime devoted to the administration, the networks spent almost one-fourth of it (204 minutes, or 24%) on the Russia investigation, eclipsing other major topics such as the economy, immigration reform, and even the gun debate.

Keeping in mind that the Russia investigation was listed as the 17th most important subject by the American voter in a recent survey, it's amazing that the media still thinks this is the subject that they need to concentrate on.  I have to wonder out loud what will happen once the Russian investigation is completed and the media is forced to move along from the story (as the American public obviously already has for the most part).

I have to go back to a comment made by our resident "genius" who suggested that we need to trust the media, and especially anonymous sources because those anonymous sources are sometime right. The problem is that these sources are hardly ever proven "right". They are just assumed to be right unless otherwise not proven to be wrong. Most of what they claim (chaos at the White House) is unprovable. People willing to be quoted will make statements that contradict the anonymous source, but it's simply assumed by the left that those are the people who are lying... and that some anonymous source get's it right. (try that in a court of law, or organized debate).

The reality is that when some anonymous sources are proven wrong, as they have been on many major issues including the Comey testimony, people leaving the White House who never left, and promises of major breakthroughs in the Mueller investigation that never happen, it becomes hard (or at least it should) to continue to believe them.

Between the 90% negative coverage, the fake anonymous sourced news, and the fundamentally transparent bias, the media has dug their own hole. The odd thing is that they don't really seem to care. They are seemingly willing to ruin the reputation of the media, present and future, in their quest to take down the President.