According to a Harvard University study, the mainstream media are very biased against Donald Trump.
Here’s a chart from the study, showing that the tone of some news outlets is negative in as many as 98% of reports:
I’ve noticed that even our local news station is about 90-10 negative on Trump coverage.
We have to look at the way the media handled Trump before he was elected. How many newspapers in the entire country endorsed Trump for president? I don’t think the number is zero but it has to be very close to zero.
Some newspapers — The Washington Post and New York Times come to mind — were virulently anti-Trump on the editorial page, which bled over into the news coverage.
Every news network except Fox was anti-Trump, the only positive news being that he was most definitely not going to be elected. Well, actually it was that he was definitely not going to be the Republican nominee, and then that he was definitely not going to be president.
The Huffington Post refused to cover Trump at all as part of its political reporting. All Trump news was published in the entertainment section.
And then he was elected president!
So everyone in the media had to either a) recalibrate their self-image from “We are super smart people who knew in advance that Trump would never be president” to “We are the dumbest people in the universe,” or b) commit to spending the next four years (at least) finding ways to say “we told you so,” e.g. “We told you he was a monster,” “We told you he was a moron,” We told you he was crazy,” etc.
Here’s a chart showing the tone of Trump coverage compared to other recent presidents:
The media are setting a new standard for unfavorable press coverage of a president. No president in recent history is even close. Note that the media were mostly cheerleaders for President Obama.