STUDY:  MAJOR TV NETWORKS GO DEEPLY NEGATIVE ON TRUMP COVERAGE

 

Nightly TV news broadcasts from June 1 to Aug. 31 were 91 percent negative in covering President Donald Trump and his administration, tallies the Media Research Center, notes Grumpy Editor.

MRC adds ABC's World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News presented just nine percent positive coverage of Trump and his administration.

This compares with 89 percent negative coverage by the three major networks in the first three months of the Trump presidency.

During the summer, MRC calculates 415 minutes of broadcast time was spent covering the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, with 94 percent of that negative.

Repealing and replacing Obamacare and Trump's response to the Charlottesville riots last month each brought 97 percent negative coverage, adds MRC.

 

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BIG WIND ON OTHER SIDE OF U.S.  With broadcast and print media focusing on hurricane activity from Texas to the East Coast, overlooked is an unusual 100 m.p.h. wind and flooding from a thunderstorm that tore the roof off a historic building and damaged a half dozen other structures in Death Valley National Park. It also blew out windows of several park employees' vehicles.

POVERTY HITS CALIFORNIANS.  The U.S. Census Bureau says one in five Californians lives in poverty, highest rate in the country. It estimates 20.4 percent of Golden State residents lived below the poverty line in a three-year average, 2014 to 2016.

MILITARY PROVIDES HURRICANE AID.  The Pentagon reports it mobilized nearly 30,000 military personnel for recovery operations along Hurricane Irma’s path from the U.S. Virgin islands to north of Atlanta.

OPRAH JOINS 60 MINUTES.  Oprah Winfrey, one of TV’s best-known celebrity interviewers, next Sunday debuts on CBS’ 60 Minutes.  With the TV newsmagazine entering its 50th anniversary year, she will be reporting on America’s political divisions.

POLICE SEARCH FOR STOLEN PET PIG.  Cleveland police are looking for Spam, a 15-pound mini-pet pig that was taken during a home break-in. “It’s just sad somebody would do this,” says its owner who acquired the one-year-old mini pig when he was a piglet.  “He’s part of our family. Keep the electronics, but don’t take somebody’s pet.”

ADULTS GO TO BED WITH STUFFED ANIMALS.  Build-A-Bear Workshop, in a survey of 2,000 Americans, finds 40 percent of adults — many from childhood — take stuffed animals to bed with them.