Study: An Astounding 90 Percent Of Media Is Anti-Trump Propaganda

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the entire mainstream media has been weaponized and turned into a propaganda machine that is determined to delegitimize and demonize President Trump.

Not that the media has been honest in decades thanks to being largely comprised of activists and ideological leftists but ever since the early stages of Trump’s candidacy it has taken a drastic turn for the worst and some would suggest that it has come to mimic state-controlled media in authoritarian countries.

Americans are subjected to a daily diet of constant negative coverage about the legitimately elected president that is largely comprised of conspiracy theories, fearmongering, outright lies and triviality – remember that the POTUS was vilified over eating two scoops of ice cream and drinking too many Diet Cokes.

Sadly, the dumbed-down low information types have no reason to distrust those who provide their daily “news” intake and have, for the most part, been brainwashed to reflexively believe the worst about Trump without even bothering to seek out alternative information sources that aren’t saturated with bias.

It’s all working like a charm to those who have declared war on the democratic process and are clamoring for Trump’s impeachment and a new study shows the extent of the propaganda.

An astounding 90 percent of the coverage of Trump has been negative according to conservative media watchdog Newsbusters.

Via Newsbusters, “Networks Trashed Trump With 90% Negative Spin in 2018, But Did It Matter?”:

Since January 20, 2017, the Media Research Center has analyzed every moment of coverage of President Trump on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts, seen by approximately 23 million people each night. Highlights:

As it was last year, the Trump presidency was the biggest story of 2018, accounting for almost 87 hours of coverage, or 28% of all evening news airtime. But that’s down from 99 hours of coverage in 2017, perhaps a sign the networks are wearying of treating every Trump tweet as deserving of crisis-level coverage.

The tone of coverage remains incessantly hostile: 90% negative, vs. just 10% positive (excluding neutral statements), matching the historically bad press we documented in 2017. Yet despite the media’s obvious disapproval, public opinion of the President actually improved slightly during 2018, from an average 40% approval on January 1 to 42.7% approval on December 31, according to RealClearPolitics.

For the second year in a row, the Russia investigation was the single most-covered topic amid the networks’ Trump coverage, garnering 858 minutes of airtime. Since January 20, 2017, the Russia probe has received 2,092 minutes of coverage on just the three evening newscasts.

To determine the spin of news coverage, our analysts tallied all explicitly evaluative statements about the President or his administration from either reporters, anchors or non-partisan sources such as experts or voters. Evaluations from partisan sources, as well as neutral statements, were not included.

As has been the case since the President took office, the tone of network coverage has been exceptionally hostile, ranging from 82% negative in April 2017 (after Trump was praised for a missile strike punishing Syria for a chemical weapons attack) to 96% negative in February 2018 (when the news agenda focused on the Russia investigation, demands for gun control, and a White House aide accused of domestic abuse).

Read it HERE.

The hostility from the press has been unrelenting and it’s about to get even worse with House Democrats busily ramping up staffing for the upcoming show trials, the hotly-anticipated nationally televised coverage of cheese-eating rat and former Trump attorney Micheal Cohen’s congressional testimony and Russia, Russia, Russia and even more Russia.

Despite the onslaught of Trump hate that far exceeds anything that George Orwell predicted in his seminal work 1984, the president’s approval ratings have been steady.