{"id":475223,"date":"2021-05-05T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T21:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=475223"},"modified":"2021-05-05T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T21:06:18","slug":"study-media-gives-biden-less-negative-coverage-than-any-president-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-media-gives-biden-less-negative-coverage-than-any-president-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDY: Media Gives Biden Less Negative Coverage Than Any President On Record"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fstudy-media-gives-biden-less-negative-coverage-than-any-president-on-record%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=475223&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1195234887.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>One of the most trusted names in research has found that President Joe Biden has received less negative coverage from the legacy media than any president in 30 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Among other surprising findings, the Pew Research Center notes that half of all stories about the Biden administration mention former President Donald Trump.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pew also finds that conservatives follow political news more closely than liberals \u2014 and that Americans as a whole think the media spend too much time covering systemic racism and not enough time talking about the illegal immigrant crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Pew Research Center has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalism.org\/2021\/04\/28\/at-100-day-mark-coverage-of-biden-has-been-slightly-more-negative-than-positive-varied-greatly-by-outlet-type\/\"><span>analyzed<\/span><\/a><span> the media coverage of the first 60 days of every presidency since Bill Clinton. There most recent findings suggest<\/span><span>\u00a0that media coverage of the Biden-Harris administration ranks among the most favorable, and the least critical, it\u2019s ever seen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhile the media landscape has changed dramatically since Clinton\u2019s presidential inauguration, the Center has been able to conduct a long-term comparison for each of the recent administrations,\u201d it says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>More than one of every four media stories about Biden has been positive (27%), tying Clinton in 1993 \u2014 when there was <\/span><i><span>only<\/span><\/i><span> the legacy media. Both fell well behind the media\u2019s adulatory coverage of Barack Obama in 2009 (42%).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The media ran more than five times as many positive stories about Joe Biden\u2019s first days in office than it did about President Trump in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Donald Trump received just 5% positive stories, as the media often fixated on lurid \u2014 and ultimately discredited \u2014 details of his dalliances with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-urine-sane-if-you-think-i-let-prostitutes-hank-berrien\"><span>Russian prostitutes<\/span><\/a><span> in the Steele dossier. Most of Biden\u2019s coverage has focused on his ideology and agenda, Pew says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, even though he\u2019s out of office, the media can\u2019t stop talking about Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTrump himself was mentioned in about half the stories about the new Biden administration,\u201d the study states. Pew finds \u201cvirtually no difference in the frequency of those mentions [of Trump in Biden stories] across outlets with left-leaning audiences (50% of stories), outlets with right-leaning audiences (47% of stories) and outlets with a mixed audience (47% of stories).\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One reason may be that the media hope to juice sagging ratings, because <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/4-reasons-media-ratings-have-plunged-since-joe-bidens-inauguration\"><span>Joe Biden is boredom personified<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Overall, Pew says that \u201cnews coverage of President Joe Biden\u2019s early days in office was modestly more negative than positive\u201d during his first 100 days, by nine percentage points.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But Pew reveals that the perception of viewers is that pro-Biden stories outnumber stories critical of Biden four to one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Its accompanying survey of 12,045 adults finds that \u201cthe public\u2019s sense of news coverage of the Biden administration is more positive than the study of the news coverage reveals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c46% of U.S. adults say that the early coverage they\u2019ve seen about the Biden administration offered mostly positive assessments, far more than the 14% who say they\u2019ve seen mostly negative ones,\u201d Pew reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The study confirms that conservatives are likely more informed about the Biden administration than the president\u2019s liberal\/progressive supporters. Pew finds that \u201cAmericans who turn only to outlets with left-leaning audiences [are] <\/span><i><span>least<\/span><\/i><span> likely to be following news about the Biden administration very closely (16%) \u2013 and their counterparts on the right almost twice as likely to do so (30%).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Finally, the Pew study finds that most major news outlets don\u2019t deliver the news Americans want. Viewers say the legacy media focus too much on racial inequality \u2014 \u201cthe topic that the highest percentage of Americans say is getting too much attention\u201d \u2014 and not enough on the economy and illegal immigration, according to the survey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ben Johnson (<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRightsWriter\"><i><span>@TheRightsWriter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>) is the Media Reporter at The Daily Wire. He previously worked at the Acton Institute, FrontPage Magazine, and LifeSiteNews. He\u2019s the author of three books, including Party of Defeat (2008, with David Horowitz).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most trusted names in research has found that President Joe Biden has received less negative coverage from the legacy media than any president in 30 years.Among other &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277405,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1195234887.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"STUDY: Media Gives Biden Less Negative Coverage Than Any President On Record","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1195234887.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"STUDY: Media Gives Biden Less Negative Coverage Than Any President On Record","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475223","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}