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We may not know the results of the election yet, but one thing we can say for sure is that the news coverage of the election was absolute garbage. According to a new study, broadcast evening news coverage reached unprecedented levels of bias, giving Democratic candidate Kamala Harris far more favorable airtime than former President Donald Trump. This stands as the most extreme media disparity in presidential campaign history.
Thestudy,releasedbytheMediaResearchCenter,showed“evaluativecoverageofHarris—excluding“horserace”assessments—onABC,CBSandNBCwas78%positivevs.22%negative.”AsforTrump,hereceived“just15%positivepress,vs.85%negativecoverage.”
“SubtractingTrump’spositivepressfromHarris’s,theadvantagetotheDemocraticnomineewas63points,thegreatestinthemodernmediaage.”
Thepreviousworstdisplayofimbalancedcampaigncoveragecamejustfouryearsago.In2020,theMRCfoundformerVicePresidentJoeBidenbaskedin66%positivenetworkcoverage,vs.just8%positivecoverageforthen-PresidentTrump,a58-pointimbalanceinfavoroftheDemocrats
