Media’s Trump Coverage Overly Positive? Harvard Study Has Answers

Media’s Trump Coverage Overly Positive?  Harvard Study Has Answers

CAMBRIDGE — Researchers at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government recently completed an exhaustive study analyzing the media's coverage of President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, and the findings officially confirm what has long been observed regarding the press's handling of the former real estate magnate.

"Trump has received unsparing coverage for most weeks of his presidency, without a single major topic where Trump's coverage, on balance, was more positive than negative, setting a new standard for unfavorable press coverage of a president," the study, orchestrated by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, concluded.

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