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BlueMTexpat

(15,376 posts)
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 07:27 PM Jun 2016

One Chart Exposes How The Media Bashes Hillary Clinton While Promoting Donald Trump

A single chart from a study at Harvard reveals the depth and degree of the media's bias against Hillary Clinton and promotion of Donald Trump.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/18/chart-exposes-media-bashes-hillary-clinton-promoting-donald-trump.html

We all "knew" this was true. Now a Harvard study confirms it.

A single chart from a study at Harvard reveals the depth and degree of the media’s bias against Hillary Clinton and promotion of Donald Trump.

A study by Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, at Harvard University, showed that while Donald Trump received nearly universally positive coverage in the year leading up to the primaries, media coverage of Hillary Clinton was more negative than that of any other candidate.

Here is a chart that every mainstream journalist should answer for:


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One Chart Exposes How The Media Bashes Hillary Clinton While Promoting Donald Trump (Original Post) BlueMTexpat Jun 2016 OP
Mahalo, Blue~ Cha Jun 2016 #1
Yep and when they cover the issues they do it in a neutral tone. Her Sister Jun 2016 #2
That's starting to change... Walk away Jun 2016 #3
The US media is a farce Cha Jun 2016 #4
 

Her Sister

(6,444 posts)
2. Yep and when they cover the issues they do it in a neutral tone.
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 07:44 PM
Jun 2016

We knew all this all along. Media can't fool us! GOP can't fool us! The "pure ones" can't fool us.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
3. That's starting to change...
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 07:44 PM
Jun 2016

The media is now sensitive about being the ones who gave the country Trump. So, at least some of the time, they are slamming Trump. The difference is, he actually has done the things they accuse him of right on camera!

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