Will the Media Be Trump's Accomplice Again in 2020?

[lapucelle]

The long opinion piece by Frank Bruni in the NYT includes a chilling acknowledgement concerning coverage, supported by data outlined in a report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

The study's author Thomas Patterson (who is Harvard's Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press) analyzed news coverage during the 2016 general election and concluded that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump received coverage that was overwhelmingly negative in tone and extremely light on policy.

“On topics relating to the candidates’ fitness for office, Clinton and Trump’s coverage was virtually identical in terms of its negative tone,” Patterson wrote.

Regarding their fitness for office, they were treated identically? In retrospect, that’s madness. It should have been in real time, too.

Read the rest here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/opinion/trump-2020-media.html

https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-election/

[Submariner]

1. Well Chuck Todd sure will based on what I read about

him on DU this morning. Chuck “sell out for access” Todd showed his republican credentials on his Meet The Republicans Show yesterday.

[democratisphere]

4. Chuck Todd needs to upgrade his MTP wardrobe with a MAGA hat!

[democratisphere]

2. The MSM is responsible for installing drumpf in the WH.

Wall to wall drumpf 24 hours a day! Hope something similar doesn't happen again!

[Cosmocat]

3. Yes, as well as the Republican Party

NM

[duforsure]

5. Unfortunately Yes they will

They show repeatedly him on TV promoting pure putin propaganda and lies, and his fake promotions he's doing for putin here. Wonder how much putin is paying them ? He's gotten many republicans in Congress now in his pockets, so I'd bet some of the media is also, or being persuaded to promote him , or else.

[Rizen]

6. Sensationalism and lack of responsibility and substance

is what the media's all about.

[RandiFan1290]

7. Yes. nt

[Joe941]

8. I'd count on it.

[jrthin]

9. They generally are his accomplices now. That's not going to change. nt

[RKP5637]

10. MSM will max profits from the 2020 election how they best see fit because their

first priority is $$$$$'s, not the country and people.

[RKP5637]

11. ... look how Rupert Murdoch has changed the political landscape of the country. One person

with a powerful megaphone, Fox News. Of course they will be.

[GoCubsGo]

12. If he makes it to 2020, yes.

Of course, they will.

[Nay]

13. Sure, if it will make them more money. nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. I'm going to go ahead and assume they will

so I won't set myself up to be disappointed. Not exactly sure how they will polish the orange turd this time to be acceptable for another 4 year term over the election of just about any Democrat, however. He's two years in and can't keep people in his (mis-)Administration and/or find new people to work for him, a level of dysfunction that we didn't have even with Dubya. There's almost no Democrat we could elect that would rival, let alone surpass the Trump clusterf**k.

[ck4829]

15. They can stop this insanity