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The Admiral
12/28/17 2:54:53 PM
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pew-trump-media-three-times-more-negative-than-for-obama-just-5-percent-positive/article/2644448

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The medias coverage of President Trump has been overwhelmingly negative, more than three times more critical than the initial coverage of former President Barack Obama and twice that of former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

The Pew Research Center said that the early coverage of Trump was 62 percent negative. By comparison, Obamas coverage was just 20 percent negative.

About six-in-ten stories on Trumps early days in office had a negative assessment, about three times more than in early coverage for Obama and roughly twice that of Bush and Clinton. Coverage of Trumps early time in office moved further away from a focus on the policy agenda and more toward character and leadership, said Pew.

The report about the harsh media coverage was included in Pews year-ending report titled "17 Striking Findings From 2017."

The media story reviewed the tone of coverage of Trumps first 60 days in office and found that just 5 percent was positive.

By comparison, Obamas coverage was 42 percent positive.


Also twice as negative as the coverage of Bush, whose policies were objectively worse. There is no way around the media being a group of babies who are still upset that they were so humiliated by Trump during the last election cycle.
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voldothegr8
12/28/17 2:55:43 PM
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According to liberals it's deserving because to them he's evil.
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CableZL
12/28/17 2:56:10 PM
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EnragedSlith
12/28/17 2:56:15 PM
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It might have something to do with shitposting all day on twitter
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prettyprincess
12/28/17 2:56:38 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Bush, whose policies were objectively worse

which/how?
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RoseIsHorriblle
12/28/17 2:56:42 PM
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The liberal propaganda is disgusting. The media are doing everything in their hand to attack Trump with either fake stories (muh Russia) or ridiculous stories (2 scoops).
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NinjaWarrior455
12/28/17 2:56:50 PM
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Wow a bad president is being shown in a negative light. You really opened my eyes up. (bo_o)b
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MrToddWall
12/28/17 2:56:51 PM
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trashposters gonna trashpost
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Zeeak4444
12/28/17 2:57:13 PM
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CableZL posted...
Trump's behavior contributes to most of that.


EnragedSlith posted...
It might have something to do with shitposting all day on twitter


These LOL. Can't bitch about the negative coverage being a displayed image of his own fucking tweets.
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Caution999
12/28/17 2:57:21 PM
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What a shock. Can't wait to see who justifies this ITT.

"but Russia!"
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Antifar
12/28/17 2:57:34 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Bush, whose policies were objectively worse.

In the first 60 days? I agree with you on the whole, but 9/11 wasn't for another 5 and a half months at the point they're measuring.

Trump's first 60 days were dominated by the travel ban and nominations like Devos and that Hardee's guy
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Caution999
12/28/17 2:57:52 PM
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MrToddWall posted...
trashposters gonna trashpost


3 karma account.
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Caution999
12/28/17 2:59:17 PM
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EnragedSlith posted...
It might have something to do with shitposting all day on twitter


You call it shitposting, I call it going around the slanted mainstream media and their phony narratives.

They hate the fact that the president can reach its citizens without their help now.
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MC_BatCommander
12/28/17 2:59:44 PM
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If Obama spent time during his presidency shitposting on Twitter I'm sure he would have negative press covfefe too.
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku
12/28/17 3:00:16 PM
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Well, it looks like the media is generally covering the source material. When Trump lies about the amount of people who attended his inauguration, you can't spin that into positive news.
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r4X0r
12/28/17 3:01:18 PM
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prettyprincess posted...
The Admiral posted...
Bush, whose policies were objectively worse

which/how?


Bush was pro illegal immigration.

CrimsonRage posted...
Trump has made the mainstream media his enemy and is constantly delegitimising them. Why should they play nice? (And should they not report on the bad stuff he does or something?).


You've totally got the carriage before the horse, there. If the media played nice and actually reported the news, Trump wouldn't have to make them his enemy. Delegitimising them? They did that on their own by working with the Democrats to attack Trump. The most egregious case was CNN giving Hillary Clinton the questions before one of the debates to let her prepare.

You're trying to justify media bias. That's absurd.
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Maeiv
12/28/17 3:01:54 PM
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Hes been attacking the mainstream media since day one, of course they are going to portray him negatively.

Doesnt help that his twitter is all over the place as well
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Funkydog
12/28/17 3:02:30 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Also twice as negative as the coverage of Bush, whose policies were objectively worse. There is no way around the media being a group of babies who are still upset that they were so humiliated by Trump during the last election cycle.

It could be that trump also acts like an edgy 4chan troll 80% of the time as well
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voldothegr8
12/28/17 3:02:34 PM
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MC_BatCommander posted...
If Obama spent time during his presidency shitposting on Twitter I'm sure he would have negative press covfefe too.

Please, if Obama had shitposted on Twitter all day long liberals would hail him a hero for being so innovative and connected with the people.
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Intro2Logic
12/28/17 3:02:52 PM
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Should the media be equally kind to people who are unequally deserving of it?
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CableZL
12/28/17 3:02:55 PM
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
Well, it looks like the media is generally covering the source material. When Trump lies about the amount of people who attended his inauguration, you can't spin that into positive news.


And when he tried to pressure the park service into finding evidence of his lie about crowd size... Can't spin that into positive news.

And when he repeatedly lied about "3 MILLION ILLEGAL VOTES" and actually put together a committee to investigate it based on no evidence at all, only for the committee to never be heard from... Can't spin that into positive news.

And when he repeatedly lied about having the largest electoral vote victory margin ever... Can't spin that into positive news.

BUT OMG HE GETS SO MUCH NEGATIVE COVERAGE, GUYS

He brings that shit on himself.
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Caution999
12/28/17 3:02:57 PM
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Maeiv posted...
Hes been attacking the mainstream media since day one, of course they are going to portray him negatively.

Doesnt help that his twitter is all over the place as well


So you admit they're just getting back at him now, and in doing so, admit they have a bias against him? Good going.
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COVxy
12/28/17 3:03:26 PM
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Are we supposed to accept the premise that a president's press is independent of his actions?
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TheVipaGTS
12/28/17 3:04:23 PM
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The right wing victim complex continues...
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voldothegr8
12/28/17 3:04:59 PM
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Bullet_Wing posted...
78mVQxQ

Great picture for the cultists

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Phantom_Nook
12/28/17 3:07:18 PM
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NinjaWarrior455 posted...
Wow a bad president is being shown in a negative light. You really opened my eyes up. (bo_o)b

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MC_BatCommander
12/28/17 3:07:27 PM
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voldothegr8 posted...
MC_BatCommander posted...
If Obama spent time during his presidency shitposting on Twitter I'm sure he would have negative press covfefe too.

Please, if Obama had shitposted on Twitter all day long liberals would hail him a hero for being so innovative and connected with the people.


Whatever makes you feel better
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AlternativeFAQS
12/28/17 3:07:45 PM
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The Admiral
12/28/17 3:08:26 PM
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MC_BatCommander posted...
voldothegr8 posted...
MC_BatCommander posted...
If Obama spent time during his presidency shitposting on Twitter I'm sure he would have negative press covfefe too.

Please, if Obama had shitposted on Twitter all day long liberals would hail him a hero for being so innovative and connected with the people.


Whatever makes you feel better


Obama did shitpost about Trayvon and Cool Clock Kid, and the media still sucked him off and made excuses.
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Zikten
12/28/17 3:08:28 PM
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MC_BatCommander posted...
voldothegr8 posted...
MC_BatCommander posted...
If Obama spent time during his presidency shitposting on Twitter I'm sure he would have negative press covfefe too.

Please, if Obama had shitposted on Twitter all day long liberals would hail him a hero for being so innovative and connected with the people.


Whatever makes you feel better

I mean he did appear on late night talk shows all the time. I remember people saying that was disgraceful for a sitting president to do
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iamintents
12/28/17 3:09:11 PM
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You get what you give

Why is that hard for Trumpeters to get?
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Balrog0
12/28/17 3:09:23 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Also twice as negative as the coverage of Bush, whose policies were objectively worse.


in the first 60 days was that true, though? I remember bush pursuing fairly bipartisa and mainstream stuff, but I dont remember it that specifically with regard to timeframe because I was like 10
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Antifar
12/28/17 3:10:10 PM
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darkjedilink
12/28/17 3:10:28 PM
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MC_BatCommander posted...
If Obama spent time during his presidency shitposting on Twitter I'm sure he would have negative press covfefe too.

You don't actually think that, do you?
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darkjedilink
12/28/17 3:11:25 PM
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Despite this, Trump and Obama have similar approval ratings their first year.

Huh.
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C_Pain
12/28/17 3:11:34 PM
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so the american people are just sheep who follow the media?
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Caution999
12/28/17 3:12:00 PM
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Antifar, do you honestly believe the Obama hold-overs that were so angry and full of hatred just gave up their jobs without a fight?
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Zeeak4444
12/28/17 3:14:23 PM
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darkjedilink posted...
Despite this, Trump and Obama have similar approval ratings their first year.

Huh.


If you use one right wing study to come to that conclusion, sure.

Antifar posted...
Things Trump tweeted in his first 60 days
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/841967881516679168
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/842494190990901248 (I forgot their first attempt at repeal was happening that early)
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837989835818287106
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837638488656920576 (Dems, being the minority, had no ability to stop approval of his cabinet)
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/834181712783560705 (lol)
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/832197515248275456
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/829836231802515457 (I think this was about the travel ban?)


lol those were great. Thanks for the trip down nostalgia road.
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Antifar
12/28/17 3:14:39 PM
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Caution999 posted...
Antifar, do you honestly believe the Obama hold-overs that were so angry and full of hatred just gave up their jobs without a fight?

This has nothing to do whatsoever with the approval process for cabinet nominees. No Obama hold-over had any power over whether Puzder became head of the DOL
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Cj_WlLL_VVlN
12/28/17 3:17:08 PM
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Trump's first 60 days involved...

Posting like a teenage girl on Twitter.

Getting flustered and angry and lashing out like a child on Twitter.

A Muslim (I mean terrorist ban, except for Saudi Arabia where the terrorists behind 9/11 came from).

Devos wanting to gut public education.

A wall that became a metaphorical wall then back to a real wall that would cost billions to solve no problem.

Promising to bring back coal and manufacturing because he either doesn't understand economics or just understands how to play red hats for votes.

His policies make sense to people in small town middle America that while never having seen a Mexican or a Muslim are convinced that the Mexicans are stealing their jobs and that Muslims care about blowing up their small town even though it wouldn't make the news.

To the rest of us he looks ridiculous.

Edit- forgot hailing the fbi director as a hero and then firing him and calling him a traitor for doing his job.
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Capn Circus
12/28/17 3:17:32 PM
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MSM is awful. It should be obvious to anyone they're shilling for Democrats. They aren't providing "the news". They're manipulators.

They're actually trying to convince people the tax plan will not benefit them. There's people now that literally believe they will not save money.
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Caution999
12/28/17 3:20:05 PM
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Bullet_Wing posted...
voldothegr8 posted...
Bullet_Wing posted...
78mVQxQ

Great picture for the cultists

hy0K1aG

If I was comparing Trump to Hitler this would make sense here. However, I wasn't, so it doesn't.


You group us into the same stereotype, and when we do the same "WAHH that's not fair!"

UHhhhhhhhh...no. Can't handle the taste of your own medicine, big boy.
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CaptainCrunch
12/28/17 3:21:04 PM
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- The two scoops of ice cream story
- The koi fish feeding story
- That coffee thing
- literally right now there's this https://www.yahoo.com/news/ivanka-trump-apos-vacation-picture-191801721.html

Yes, the media dislikes Trump and isn't putting in any effort to hide that fact. It just is what it is.

Oh wait, there's also this

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/trump-merry-christmas-video-164730007.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiffany-ivanka-trump-mocked-bikini-163208288.html

None of this stuff is newsworthy. None of it. I don't want to go to read the news and get assaulted with countless idiotic stories about what color sweater Trump is wearing and how it's offensive to blind people.

I dislike Trump, btw. But god damn it, enough of this shit.
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