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 that complained the media were rougher on Vice President Kamala Harris than on former President 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—after 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 broadcasts on ABC, CBS, and NBC, the Media Research Center finds her coverage is 78% positive and Trump’s is 85% negative.
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