{"id":2523949,"date":"2025-12-22T12:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-concha-says-media-bias-against-trump-is-painfully-obvious\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:44:32","slug":"joe-concha-says-media-bias-against-trump-is-painfully-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-concha-says-media-bias-against-trump-is-painfully-obvious\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Concha says media bias against Trump is \u2018painfully obvious\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-concha-says-media-bias-against-trump-is-painfully-obvious%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2523949&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Joe Concha, a Washington Examiner senior writer, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-electors-place-their-votes-for-president-trump-and-then-vote-to-condemn-supreme-court-for-throwing-out-texas-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Texas Electors Place Their Votes for ... ... and Then Vote to Condemn Supreme Court for Throwing Out Texas Lawsuit\">media bias<\/a> against President Donald Trump is &#8220;painfully obvious,&#8221; citing a recent snapshot of Mediaite &#8211; where he once worked &#8211; that showed 11 homepage stories about Trump, 10 negative and one neutral. Appearing on fox&#8217;s life, Liberty, and Levin, he argued that democrats are rarely portrayed negatively likewise and criticized outlets like the New York Times and Washington post.The piece notes Ad Fontes media ranks Mediaite moderately left (-8.85) and cites a Media Research center finding that ABC, CBS, and NBC&#8217;s coverage of Trump&#8217;s first 100 days was 92% negative. The article also <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >outlines long-running tensions<\/a> between the Trump management and the press, including skipped events, disputes with the AP, and talk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-mulls-hiring-additional-stenographers-for-trump\/\" title=\"... mulls hiring additional stenographers for ...\">hiring additional stenographers<\/a> to transcribe the president.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Joe Concha says media bias against Trump is &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-psaki-and-fuentes-can-eat-s-over-attacks-on-second-lady\/\" title=\"Vance says Psaki and Fuentes can ...eat s***... over attacks on second lady\">painfully obvious&#038;rsquo<\/a>;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2422750\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> senior writer <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3920323\/the-five-most-uncovered-and-inaccurate-stories-of-2025\/\">Joe Concha<\/a> lamented the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/4108405\/trumps-alcoholics-personality-comes-through-white-house-report-card\/\">negative coverage of President Donald Trump<\/a> while &ldquo;Democrats are almost never cast in a negative light.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Concha appeared on Fox News&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>Life, Liberty, and Levin&nbsp;<\/em>on Sunday to lament that <em>Mediaite<\/em>, a news site he wrote for about 10 years ago, has swung so far to the left since he worked there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4355302\/tom-emmer-somali-minnesota-fraud-not-racist\/\">Tom Emmer says it&#8217;s &#8216;not racist&#8217; to call alleged Somali fraud in Minnesota &#8216;for what it is&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4355316\/russian-general-assassinated-moscow-car-bombing\/\">Russian general assassinated in Moscow car bombing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4355309\/washington-examiner-appoints-veteran-journalist-bob-cusack-executive-editor\/\">Washington Examiner appoints veteran journalist Bob Cusack as Executive Editor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s painfully obvious when you go to <em>MEDIAite<\/em>, for example, I wrote for them &mdash; in full disclosure &mdash; about a decade ago, but it was a different site then. I just looked this past Thursday, just randomly [at] 1 in the afternoon: I saw 11 stories on Trump on its homepage. Ten were profoundly negative, one was relatively neutral, zero were positive,&rdquo; Concha said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Meanwhile, Democrats are almost never cast in a negative light, and it&rsquo;s no different at the <em>New York Times<\/em> &hellip; and it&rsquo;s not better at the <em>Washington Post<\/em> either,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3292934&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=5cb7090cd60b02f4adb94473774ea8a3\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Mediaite <\/em>skews left, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/adfontesmedia.com\/mediaite-bias-and-reliability\/\">according to Ad Fonte Media<\/a>, a public benefit corporation that ranks news outlets. According to its scale, which ranges from -42 to represent the most leftist bias and 42 to represent the most right bias, the outlet is -8.85.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/abc3340.com\/news\/nation-world\/major-networks-92-negative-coverage-of-president-trump\">Media Research Center<\/a> found that the news coverage of Trump&rsquo;s first 100 days was 92% negative on ABC, CBS, and NBC networks.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-memo\/4044493\/media-effort-bidenize-trump\/\"><strong>THE MEDIA EFFORT TO BIDENIZE TRUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has long battled with the media. Trump notably did not attend the most recent <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3392737\/white-house-correspondents-dinner-biden-coverage\/\">White House Correspondents&rsquo; dinner<\/a>, similar to years past. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt attempted to bar the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3329833\/trump-takeover-whca-press-rotation-white-house-events\/\"><em>Associated Press<\/em><\/a>  from her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-biden-help-unite-america\/\" title=\"Can Biden Help Unite America?\">press conferences<\/a> when the outlet refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, following Trump&rsquo;s executive order renaming it.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the White House <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">may consider hiring&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3305308\/white-house-weighing-new-hires-record-all-trump-words\/\">more stenographers<\/a>&nbsp;to transcribe Trump, as he has proven to be talkative <\/span>during his time in office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concha: Media bias vs. Trump &#8216;painfully obvious<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2523950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25310629598137.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[32319,52093,32490,69228],"class_list":["post-2523949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-concha","tag-media-bias","tag-press-criticism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25310629598137.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523953,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523949\/revisions\/2523953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}