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Showing Original Post only (View all)A.I. Shows Mainstream Media Is Working Overtime To Knock Biden Down [View all]
Mainstream Media Analysis Shows Biden Gets More Negative Coverage than Trump
According to a new study covered in the Washington Post, the average political news consumer is finding far more negative coverage of Joe Biden than that for Donald Trump, a man who handled an epidemic about as poorly as it could be handled and played some role in what amounted to a failed coup.
According to the Post, a very sophisticated meta-study was done regarding the coverage each man received:
Artificial intelligence can now measure the negativity with precision.
-snip-
Using algorithms that give weight to certain adjectives based on their placement in the story, it rated the coverage Biden received in the first 11 months of 2021 and the coverage President Donald Trump got in the first 11 months of 2020.
There is a very important point buried in that last sentence. Most presidents enjoy a honeymoon period. This study did not cover Trumps honeymoon, it measured Trumps last year, a year that could only be described as disastrous on a historic level, especially as compared to Bidens first year which, despite some setbacks, has largely been a spectacular return to normalcy.
And yet:
After a honeymoon of slightly positive coverage in the first three months of the year, Bidens press for the past four months has been as bad as and for a time worse than the coverage Trump received for the same four months of 2020.
The article then goes on to highlight some of the most devastating events which occurred in Trumps final year, culminating in the first violent transfer of power in our history, all of it versus Bidens first year this year:
And yet Trump got press coverage as favorable as, or better than, Biden is getting today.
-snip-
There is something very wrong in American media if Joe Biden is receiving more negative media attention of his first largely successful year than the devastating trail that Trump blazed in his final year. - PoliticusUSA
According to a new study covered in the Washington Post, the average political news consumer is finding far more negative coverage of Joe Biden than that for Donald Trump, a man who handled an epidemic about as poorly as it could be handled and played some role in what amounted to a failed coup.
According to the Post, a very sophisticated meta-study was done regarding the coverage each man received:
Artificial intelligence can now measure the negativity with precision.
-snip-
Using algorithms that give weight to certain adjectives based on their placement in the story, it rated the coverage Biden received in the first 11 months of 2021 and the coverage President Donald Trump got in the first 11 months of 2020.
There is a very important point buried in that last sentence. Most presidents enjoy a honeymoon period. This study did not cover Trumps honeymoon, it measured Trumps last year, a year that could only be described as disastrous on a historic level, especially as compared to Bidens first year which, despite some setbacks, has largely been a spectacular return to normalcy.
And yet:
After a honeymoon of slightly positive coverage in the first three months of the year, Bidens press for the past four months has been as bad as and for a time worse than the coverage Trump received for the same four months of 2020.
The article then goes on to highlight some of the most devastating events which occurred in Trumps final year, culminating in the first violent transfer of power in our history, all of it versus Bidens first year this year:
And yet Trump got press coverage as favorable as, or better than, Biden is getting today.
-snip-
There is something very wrong in American media if Joe Biden is receiving more negative media attention of his first largely successful year than the devastating trail that Trump blazed in his final year. - PoliticusUSA
JRB is having a remarkably successful first year in office, but the mainstream media can't sell television ads that reflects success, when dirt sells at a higher price. They need to elevate their beloved marketing boogeyman, TFG, to keep the money rolling in.
Know this. If you're tuning in every day hoping for some good news about Biden, then they have you hooked. Turn that shit off! Or better yet, write letters to that phony news station and let them have it with both barrels. WTF?!!
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Vast majority will not "turn it off" sir, so that's no solution to nothing by a personal level.
Alexander Of Assyria
Dec 2021
#22
And yet there are so many people that are watching it happen daily! And we are aware, and
BComplex
Dec 2021
#4
Nazi sympathizers in the boardrooms of CBSNBCABC, isn't it obvious by now?
Alexander Of Assyria
Dec 2021
#21
That's exactly what I suspected. Poor Joe can't drum up enough juicy scandals to keep them
Vinca
Dec 2021
#23
A media analyst said Biden needs an enemy to improve ratings; corruption should be that enemy
traitorsgalore
Dec 2021
#26
I maintain that media has always been used to forward owners' political agenda
pecosbob
Dec 2021
#27