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CrowTRobot
05/19/17 4:47:52 PM
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Not that we needed a study to know that, but this makes it scientific and whatnot...

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/harvard-study-reveals-huge-extent-of-anti-trump-media-bias/

A major new study out of Harvard University has revealed the true extent of the mainstream media’s bias against Donald Trump.

Academics at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzed coverage from Trump’s first 100 days in office across 10 major TV and print outlets.

They found that the tone of some outlets was negative in as many as 98% of reports, significantly more hostile than the first 100 days of the three previous administrations:



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Glass_Phantom
05/19/17 4:49:19 PM
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Perhaps it is because Donald Trump has been a rather poor president.
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Milkman5
05/19/17 4:49:22 PM
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anyone who watches TV knows this, but does anyone know how other presidents fare?
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REMercsChamp
05/19/17 4:50:04 PM
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Amputation
05/19/17 4:50:39 PM
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Damn, I feel so bad for Trump. At least the media isn't questioning his place of birth though, that would be going way too far.
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darkphoenix181
05/19/17 4:50:49 PM
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CrowTRobot posted...
scientific and whatnot...


lol


I guess for once Fox can look like fair and balanced for real
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legendarylemur
05/19/17 4:51:39 PM
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Gentlemen... we can be more biased. We have the technology
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cjsdowg
05/19/17 4:51:41 PM
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That isn't bias.

That is like saying HIV is spoken about more negatively then ice cream. Trump keeps doing negative shit .
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gafemaqs
05/19/17 4:52:01 PM
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Trump's a cuck
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Mist_Turnips
05/19/17 4:52:24 PM
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That's the power of hurt feelings, lol.
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darkphoenix181
05/19/17 4:52:31 PM
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btw where is the control?

no breitbart in this study?

not scientific at all
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sondast
05/19/17 4:53:33 PM
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How did they determine the tone of an article?
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Returning_CEmen
05/19/17 4:53:40 PM
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Maybe it's just that hard to say anything positive about him.
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The Deadpool
05/19/17 4:53:55 PM
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That's not how you show bias...
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SK8T3R215
05/19/17 4:54:00 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
That isn't bias.

That is like saying HIV is spoken about more negatively then ice cream. Trump keeps doing negative shit .


Well if 98% of things he has done can be described as negative, sure. But I doubt that's the case especially when I see topics of things that are pretty mundane or standard being cast as negative just because Trump.
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CableZL
05/19/17 4:54:01 PM
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That's what happens when Trump says and does stupid things almost every day.
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thronedfire2
05/19/17 4:54:14 PM
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I mean, when everything he does is negative, the majority of stories are gonna be negative
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Axiom
05/19/17 4:54:17 PM
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It's pretty hard to report on the good things he does when they don't exist
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MC_BatCommander
05/19/17 4:54:49 PM
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He's kind of an unprecedented bumbling fool of a president as well, not surprised tbh
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prince_leo
05/19/17 4:54:50 PM
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Have the mainstream media covered Trump in a fair and balanced way? That question cannot be answered definitively in the absence of an agreed-upon version of “reality” against which to compare Trump’s coverage. Any such assessment would also have to weigh the news media’s preference for the negative, a tendency in place long before Trump became president. Given that tendency, the fact that Trump has received more negative coverage than his predecessor is hardly surprising. The early days of his presidency have been marked by far more missteps and miss-hits, often self-inflicted, than any presidency in memory, perhaps ever.

What’s truly atypical about Trump’s coverage is that it’s sharply negative despite the fact that he’s the source of nearly two-thirds of the sound bites surrounding his coverage. Typically, newsmakers and groups complain that their media narrative is negative because they’re not given a chance to speak for themselves. Over the past decade, U.S. coverage of Muslims has been more than 75 percent negative. And Muslims have had little chance to tell their side of the story. Muslims account for less than 5 percent of the voices heard in news reports about Islam. So why is Trump’s coverage so negative even though he does most of the talking? The fact is, he’s been on the defensive during most of his 100 days in office, trying to put the best face possible on executive orders, legislative initiatives, appointments, and other undertakings that have gone bad. Even Fox has not been able to save him from what analyst David Gergen called the “’worst 100 days we’ve ever seen.”


From the study itself: https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-donald-trumps-first-100-days/?utm_source=POLITICO.EU&utm_campaign=ab6d830a9d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_10959edeb5-ab6d830a9d-189799085


So uh, no point really to this
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Darkman124
05/19/17 4:54:57 PM
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negative coverage is only bias if it's unwarranted
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MJ_Max
05/19/17 4:55:11 PM
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That's not what bias means.
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KarmaMuffin
05/19/17 4:55:15 PM
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This research is partially funded by Rebecca Donatelli.



As chief internet consultant to John McCain’s two presidential races, she directed the online campaigns that brought the Internet to the forefront of politics and public affairs. During the 2008 cycle, her team raised an unprecedented $100 million online for Sen. McCain’s election.


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Axiom
05/19/17 4:56:08 PM
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Asherlee10 posted...
2. He's also been hostile and negative since the day he started campaigning

"Ow! He punched me because I punched him first."

This is also true. He basically declared war on everyone but breitbart
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COVxy
05/19/17 4:56:13 PM
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This is like saying that media coverage of the health effects of cancer are biased negatively against cancer.
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darkphoenix181
05/19/17 4:56:47 PM
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KarmaMuffin posted...
This research is partially funded by Rebecca Donatelli.



As chief internet consultant to John McCain’s two presidential races, she directed the online campaigns that brought the Internet to the forefront of politics and public affairs. During the 2008 cycle, her team raised an unprecedented $100 million online for Sen. McCain’s election.


Hmm


I thought McCain hates Trump though, cause he called him a loser.
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Darkman124
05/19/17 4:57:13 PM
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darkphoenix181 posted...
I thought McCain hates Trump though, cause he called him a loser.


the implication is that donatelli is a republican fundraiser and is acting in accordance with party orders
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cjsdowg
05/19/17 4:57:33 PM
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SK8T3R215 posted...

Well if 98% of things he has done can be described as negative, sure. But I doubt that's the case especially when I see topics of things that are pretty mundane or standard being cast as negative just because Trump.


Have you read his online ranting . This is a 70 year old man ranting on the internet at 3 am. But he isn't that negative? This is man who hired someone who has been SUCCESSFULLY sued for voter suppression 4 times to help run his unit on voter fraud, this is man who literally posted Neo-Nazi lies to attack black people.

Tell me what is so positive about this man?
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DifferentialEquation
05/19/17 4:58:04 PM
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It's true. At least during the election you could say they wanted their candidate Hilary to win, but there's no excuse for it now. Say what you will about Republicans, but at least after Obama won they had the decency to put aside their differences and they tried to support him. But everyone on the left is now acting childish because they didn't get their way.
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yem69420
05/19/17 4:58:36 PM
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byron posted...
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if you weren't a known shill you'd get warned or banned for that

Amputation posted...
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i've heard 100x more bitching about that damn tax return than obama's birth certificate

they somehow think the leader of the free world was able to fuck the IRS and still get elected, it wouldn't be that hard to cook a birth certificate using that logic
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Calwyn
05/19/17 4:59:08 PM
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Glass_Phantom posted...
Perhaps it is because Donald Trump has been a rather poor president.

cjsdowg posted...
That isn't bias.

That is like saying HIV is spoken about more negatively then ice cream. Trump keeps doing negative shit .

CableZL posted...
That's what happens when Trump says and does stupid things almost every day.

thronedfire2 posted...
I mean, when everything he does is negative, the majority of stories are gonna be negative

Axiom posted...
It's pretty hard to report on the good things he does when they don't exist

Asherlee10 posted...
1. Trump's daily actions are controversial (lightly stated)
2. He's also been hostile and negative since the day he started campaigning

MC_BatCommander posted...
He's kind of an unprecedented bumbling fool of a president as well, not surprised tbh

D98vd92

It's not that hard to understand why.
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darkphoenix181
05/19/17 5:00:04 PM
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DifferentialEquation posted...
Say what you will about Republicans, but at least after Obama won they had the decency to put aside their differences and they tried to support him



lmao
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loafy013
05/19/17 5:00:45 PM
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DifferentialEquation posted...
Say what you will about Republicans, but at least after Obama won they had the decency to put aside their differences and they tried to support him

<insert bender laughing .gif>
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COVxy
05/19/17 5:02:10 PM
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darkphoenix181 posted...
DifferentialEquation posted...
Say what you will about Republicans, but at least after Obama won they had the decency to put aside their differences and they tried to support him



lmao


Not to mention, nobody has ever said 'you should support Obama because he's the president now'.

This is an entirely new argument. And a bad one at that.
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yem69420
05/19/17 5:03:39 PM
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CE
where every conservative is like the worst person on /pol/ and every liberal is a tumblr whore

divides us further to think like that. quit being a fucking shill
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YellowSUV
05/19/17 5:03:45 PM
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A terrible person is covered negatively, what a surprise.
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DifferentialEquation
05/19/17 5:05:32 PM
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COVxy posted...
darkphoenix181 posted...
DifferentialEquation posted...
Say what you will about Republicans, but at least after Obama won they had the decency to put aside their differences and they tried to support him



lmao


Not to mention, nobody has ever said 'you should support Obama because he's the president now'.

This is an entirely new argument. And a bad one at that.


I didn't mean blindly support him. But Republicans were doing their best to cooperate and make compromises with a president who had very different ideals than they did. Democrats now are basically just having a tantrum.
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The Deadpool
05/19/17 5:07:21 PM
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DifferentialEquation posted...
Republicans were doing their best to cooperate and make compromises with a president who had very different ideals than they did.


Hahahahahahahahaha...
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Mr_MacPhisto
05/19/17 5:07:58 PM
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Every single political topic on CE turns into a liberal circle jerk. Sweet Jesus.
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Amputation
05/19/17 5:08:34 PM
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yem69420 posted...
byron posted...
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if you weren't a known shill you'd get warned or banned for that

Amputation posted...
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i've heard 100x more bitching about that damn tax return than obama's birth certificate

they somehow think the leader of the free world was able to fuck the IRS and still get elected, it wouldn't be that hard to cook a birth certificate using that logic


The bold part: so you are admitting to not following current events. The birther thing went for 4 years.

You are undeniably and categorically wrong.
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DeltaRayquaza
05/19/17 5:09:34 PM
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Harvard study reveals unprecedented reality bias against President Trump
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Amputation
05/19/17 5:10:06 PM
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DifferentialEquation posted...
It's true. At least during the election you could say they wanted their candidate Hilary to win, but there's no excuse for it now. Say what you will about Republicans, but at least after Obama won they had the decency to put aside their differences and they tried to support him. But everyone on the left is now acting childish because they didn't get their way.


Hahahahahahahahahahaha

This is the most misguided comment I have read today.

Tagged as "ignore all comments"
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05/19/17 5:10:32 PM
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Darkman124
05/19/17 5:11:01 PM
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Mr_MacPhisto posted...
Every single political topic on CE turns into a liberal circle jerk. Sweet Jesus.


our conservatives are not very good at making a persuasive argument
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scoobydoobydont
05/19/17 5:12:01 PM
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That's some pretty transparent spin by an alt-right fake news site and Trumpsters in general.
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Darkman124
05/19/17 5:12:03 PM
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DifferentialEquation posted...

I didn't mean blindly support him. But Republicans were doing their best to cooperate and make compromises with a president who had very different ideals than they did.


republicans used the procedural filibuster more times in the last 3 sessions of congress than all preceding instances combined

they were taking revenge for democrats passing the ACA via budgetary reconciliation, but that in turn happened because zero republicans were willing to collaborate on a workable public option, as their platform had no room for such a policy
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