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From Media Research Center: Not even Sunday’s close call with a would-be assassin could interrupt the liberal TV networks’ barrage of bad press against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. A look at the first 72 hours of coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts — Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights — finds that while the attempted assassination dominated campaign coverage, these networks’ anti-Trump spin was nearly as bad as it could be: 95% negative, vs. just five percent positive.
MRC analysts analyzed all 69 minutes of campaign coverage on the evening newscasts from September 15 through September 17. The attempted assassination was by far the dominant story: 48 minutes of airtime, or almost 70% of all campaign news. The networks aired more than 17 minutes of coverage on Sunday night, an additional 22 minutes on Monday and another eight minutes Tuesday evening.
Yet even as they covered the shocking new danger to Trump, the networks persisted in bashing the GOP candidate on a range of other issues — as well as his reaction to his own close call. Over the three nights, we tallied 21 evaluative comments about the GOP candidate, 20 of which were negative, which computes to a 95% negative spin score. (For more, see the methodology explanation at the end of this article.)
The MRC report then lists multiple examples, as the liberal media piled on their negative coverage of Trump amid the alarming attempt on his life:
- NBC’s Lester Holt claimed Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, were making “baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio.”
- CBS Weekend News reporter Skyler Henry claimed Trump was making “unsubstantiated claims about immigrants are eating pets.”
- ABC’s Perry Russom on Sunday’s World News Tonight said, “The baseless claim amplified by President Trump at the ABC News debate.”
- CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane attacked Trump over mail-in ballots, saying, “It [voting by mail] was the subject of baseless conspiracy theories and false claims of fraud by some critics, including former President Donald Trump and his supporters.”
- On Monday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Norah O’Donnell ranted, “Donald Trump is blaming Democrats for inflaming political rhetoric, but the former President’s own words seem to be increasing the threat of political violence in Springfield Ohio. That’s where a false and ugly accusation against Haitians, thousands of whom are legal permanent residents, is impacting everyday life.”
- CBS’s Nikole Killion claimed “viral unfounded claims about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets continue to circulate, amplified by former President Trump and running mate Ohio Senator JD Vance.”
- On Tuesday, ABC’s David Muir touted the “false claims that have been spread by Donald Trump,” and correspondent Rachel Scott described Springfield as “a community on edge ever since former President Donald Trump amplified a false conspiracy theory….”
🚨 BREAKING STUDY: The leftist media gave Trump 95% negative coverage in the first 72 hours following his second assassination attempt. https://t.co/aQxx6zpVCU
— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) September 18, 2024
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