t’s late in the campaign, so the network “news” programs often seem indistinguishable from the cascade of negative campaign ads that air around the harrumphing anchormen and anchorwomen.
Rich Noyes at NewsBusters reported that the tone of coverage about the Trump-Vance ticket (excluding statements by politicians) from July 21 to September 27 was 96 percent negative on ABC, 81 percent negative on CBS, and 87 percent negative on NBC.
By contrast, the coverage of the Harris-Walz ticket was 97 percent positive on ABC, 85 percent positive on CBS, and 65 percent positive on NBC.
Bias by omission is part of that math. Since the study came out, London’s Daily Mail offered an anonymous accuser who claimed she was a girlfriend of Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff when he violently slapped her face in 2012 after an event at the Cannes Film Festival in…
