It’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 Sept. 27 was 96% negative on ABC, 81% negative on CBS, and 87% negative on NBC.
By contrast, the coverage of the Harris-Walz ticket was 97% positive on ABC, 85% positive on CBS, and 65% 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 Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, when he is said to have violently slapped her face in 2012 after an event at the Cannes Film Festival in France. An allegation…
