{"id":32065,"date":"2024-09-10T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32065"},"modified":"2024-09-10T19:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T00:46:13","slug":"abc-campaign-coverage-has-been-100-positive-for-harris-93-negative-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32065","title":{"rendered":"ABC Campaign Coverage Has Been 100% Positive for Harris, 93% Negative for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ABC News program World News Tonight<\/em> has shown an overall positive spin on its reporting of Vice President Kamala Harris, versus its overall negative reporting on former President Donald Trump, according to a recent report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A report<\/a> from the Media Research Center\u2019s (MRC) NewsBusters found that an analysis of \u201c100 campaign stories\u201d aired on World News Tonight,<\/em> hosted by David Muir, found \u201c25 clearly positive statements\u201d made about Harris from \u201creporters, anchors, voters or other non-partisan sources,\u201d which represented a 100 percent positive spin on the outlets reporting for Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 100 campaign stories that MRC reviewed stemmed from July 21, when Harris entered the 2024 presidential race, to September 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An analysis of ABC\u2019s reporting on Trump found \u201cfive clearly positive statements\u201d and \u201c66 negative statements,\u201d representing a 93 percent negative spin on the outlets reporting for Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MRC\u2019s NewsBusters report noted that \u201cABC\u2019s reporters and anchors either jumped in to criticize Trump themselves, or broadcast negative comments from non-partisan sources to impart a heavily negative spin to the former President\u2019s coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one example of the biased reporting from the outlet on their coverage of Trump versus Harris, during an interview<\/a> between Muir and Trump in January 2017, Muir seemed to imply that Trump was not presidential for speaking about his popular support, though Muir kept asking him about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DAVID MUIR: Mr. President, I just have one more question on this. And it\u2019s \u2014 it\u2019s bigger picture. You took some heat after your visit to the CIA in front of that hallowed wall, 117 stars \u2014 of those lost at the CIA. You talked about other things. But you also talked about crowd size at the inauguration, about the size of your rallies, about covers on Time magazine. And I just wanna ask you when does all of that matter just a little less? When do you let it roll off your back now that you\u2019re the president?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the interview, Trump continued to talk about his speech and how other outlets such as Fox News described it as being \u201cgreat,\u201d while ABC News and \u201cother networks covered it very inaccurately.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRESIDENT TRUMP: And they tried to demean. Excuse me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DAVID MUIR: Not me personally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Not you personally but your network \u2014 and they tried to demean the speech. And I know when things are good or bad. A poll just came out on my inauguration speech which was extraordinary that people loved it. Loved and liked. And it was an extraordinary poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DAVID MUIR: I guess that\u2019s what I\u2019m getting at. You talked about the poll, the people loving your inaugural speech and the size of your\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRESIDENT TRUMP: No, because you bring it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DAVID MUIR: I\u2019m asking, well, on day one you\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, you just brought it up. I didn\u2019t bring it up. I didn\u2019t wanna \u2014 talk about the inauguration speech. But I think I did a very good job and people really liked it. You saw the poll. Just came out this morning. You bring it up. I didn\u2019t bring it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DAVID MUIR: So, polls and crowd size and covers on Time, those still matter now that you\u2019re here as president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, you keep bringing it up. I had a massive amount of people here. They were showing pictures that were very unflattering, as unflattering \u2014 from certain angles \u2014 that were taken early and lots of other things. I\u2019ll show you a picture later if you\u2019d like of a massive crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another instance, during an interview<\/a> in August 2020 President Joe Biden and Harris, who were the Democratic presidential and vice-presidential nominees at the time, Muir asked Biden if he blamed Trump for the deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, and labeled the Trump administration as negligent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MUIR: We have so much we want to get to here, but I do want to get right to the heaviness of the moment in our country. The pandemic \u2014 more than 170,000 American lives lost now \u2014 Mr. Vice President, you have said that people are dying because of this negligence. Do you blame President Trump for lives lost?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIDEN: I don\u2019t blame him for the COVID crisis. I blame him for walking away and not dealing with the solutions. The idea of sayingg that this is going to go away, that some miracle is going to happen, there\u2019s all talk about the crazy things about bleach and using, I mean it\u2019s just, he hasn\u2019t listened to the scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MUIR: But do you think the negligence on the part of this administration has cost lives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other instances, Muir has congratulated<\/a> Harris on making \u201chistory,\u201d and cut off former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) for pointing<\/a> out that Democrats have previously denied election results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLook, David, this goes all the way back to 2000 with George W. Bush when you had supporters of Al Gore who, even after Vice President Gore conceded the election and certified it himself as the president of the Senate, refused to accept George W. Bush as legitimate,\u201d Christie said on Tuesday. \u201cYou\u2019ve had Hillary Clinton say that she still doesn\u2019t accept the 2016 election results as legitimate. This is a very dangerous thing in this country, which was brought to a new level in 2020 when Donald Trump \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muir immediately interjected, stressing that Gore \u201cstood before the nation and actually conceded and did something very different than what we witnessed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes as Muir, along with Linsey Davis, an anchor on ABC News Live Prime<\/em> will moderate<\/a> the presidential debate on Tuesday between Harris and Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MRC\u2019s report also noted that coverage from CBS Evening News<\/em> and NBC Nightly News<\/em> showed \u201chighly positive coverage\u201d for the vice president, while the former president received negative coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the coverage of Harris on CBS was found to be 94 percent positive, while Trump\u2019s was 77 percent negative. NBC\u2019s coverage of Harris was found to have been 71 percent positive, and 86 percent negative for Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABC News program World News Tonight has shown an overall positive spin on its reporting of Vice President Kamala Harris, versus its overall negative reporting on former President Donald Trump, according to a recent report. A report from the Media Research Center\u2019s (MRC) NewsBusters found that an analysis of \u201c100 campaign stories\u201d aired on World News Tonight, hosted by David Muir, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10124,1637,2302,1182,1230],"class_list":["post-32065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-abc","tag-campaign","tag-harris","tag-report","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32067,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32065\/revisions\/32067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}