Donald Trump has had plenty of gaffes and made plenty of dumb statements during this campaign season. But that doesn’t justify the fact that the media has given Trump 91% negative coverage since the conventions in July. That’s historically biased, even after McCain and Romney were routinely attacked by the media while they were trying to protect Obama.
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In the twelve weeks since the party conventions concluded in late July, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has received significantly more broadcast network news coverage than his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, but nearly all of that coverage (91%) has been hostile, according to a new study by the Media Research Center (MRC).
In addition, the networks spent far more airtime focusing on the personal controversies involving Trump (440 minutes) than about similar controversies involving Clinton (185 minutes). Donald Trump’s treatment of women was given 102 minutes of evening news airtime, more than that allocated to discussing Clinton’s e-mail scandal (53 minutes) and the Clinton Foundation pay-for-play scandals (40 minutes) combined.