The Left has a tendency to grade the media’s performance based on results. It doesn’t matter if you favor the Democrats aggressively if they don’t win…or if the polls seem tied.
Recently, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson was celebrated on Morning Joe for writing a column which complained the media was rougher on Kamala Harris than Donald Trump. “Somehow, it is apparently baked into this campaign that Trump is allowed to talk and act like a complete lunatic while Harris has to be perfect in every way.”
This argument – later to be picked up by Michelle Obama and others – is nowhere close to reality. The legacy media have overwhelmingly favored Harris. On the evening news on ABC, CBS, and NBC, the Media Research Center finds her coverage is 78 percent positive and Trump’s is 85 percent negative.
Let’s guess that this complaint…
