Tomorrow, when you listen to the establishment media’s Inauguration Day coverage, you likely won’t hear journalists celebrate the incoming Republican President Donald Trump. And it’s not just their unique hostility to Trump — a deep dive into the MRC’s archives shows liberal reporters and anchors have been ardent participants in the so-called “honeymoon” for new Democratic Presidents, but provide a much chillier reception when it’s a Republican President being sworn into office.
Back in 1993, for example, the weekly newsmagazines cheered the arrival of incoming Democratic President Bill Clinton. Newsweek’s Howard Fineman enthused: “There’s no doubting that the nation is about to be led by its first sensitive male chief executive.”
Time’s Richard Corliss hit the same note: “Clinton is a prime communicator, a beacon of middle-class…
