The latest special report by veteran MRC researcher Rich Noyes found that since Joe Biden was forced out of the presidential race, the ABC/CBS/NBC evening newscasts have given her 84 percent positive coverage. That’s unprecedented in our MRC history. Noyes noted “the spin of Harris’s coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump’s coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative).”
In 2020, we calculated that the networks supplied Joe Biden with 66% positive coverage during the general election, while media scholars Robert Lichter and Stephen Farnsworth (using a similar methodology) found 68% positive press for Democratic nominee Barack Obama, “the highest…recorded for any nominee over the past six election cycles” by the nonpartisan Center for Media and Public Affairs.
Not only has she…
