A new study for NewsBusters found the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC have maintained their hypernegative coverage of Donald Trump since the New Hampshire primary over the last month or so. But now, it’s pounding away on Trump’s policy preferences and not just his legal troubles with Democrat prosecutors.
Longtime MRC research director (and now NewsBusters contributor) Rich Noyes explains his latest research of the evening-newscast coverage of the Republican campaign. After almost completely ignoring policy issues last year (only 8.6 percent of Republican campaign coverage), Trump’s aggressive messages to other Republicans on immigration and on NATO roiled the media into outraged coverage of his influence on the GOP. It jumped to 24 percent of coverage in recent weeks.
While ABC’s Mary Bruce claimed Trump attempted to “derail his party’s top…
