Since the November election conservatives have observed the already-liberal media has only gotten worse, and now an unlikely source is agreeing with that complaint. Harvard University, crown jewel of the Ivy League in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is hardly known for its conservative leanings. But the numbers were so startling even Crimson researchers had to publish them.
In the first 100 days of the Trump presidency, 80 percent of media coverage was negative. For major liberal players such as CNN, NBC and The New York Times, that number was as high as 93 percent.
The story of Trump’s first 100 days, says lead researcher Thomas Patterson, is Trump vs. the media. “That is very strange in a two-party system,” he observes, “where the competition is between the president and the press and not between the two parties. And I think the press needs to kind of back away a little bit and kind of think a little bit harder about how democracies work.”
The one exception that proves the rule: After the missile strike on the Syrian airbase responsible for the chemical attack in that war-torn country, 80 percent of the coverage was positive.