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“Tilt??” . . . Perhaps!

One of my anti-Trump friends recently said, “

Sure the media has some biases and many outlets tilt liberal.” 

I am still shaking my head over that comment. At that time my response choices included:

“Perhaps”

and

“Tilt liberal? You are f-in looney-tunes if you believe they just ‘tilt liberal’.”

Anyway,I decided to answer, “perhaps,” to keep the conversation civil. 

However, just the same I looked into this and am going to now include some stats that will, perhaps, clarify ‘tilt’.

The following is from ‘mrcNewsBusters’ which defined itself as America’s Media Watchdog:

“A new mrc analysis of all evening news coverage of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden in June and July found these networks chose to aim most of their attention and nearly all of their negative coverage on Trump, so Biden escaped any scrutiny of his left-wing policy positions, past job performance or character.

From June 1 through July 31, the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts focused 512 minutes of airtime on the President, or nine times more than the 58 minutes allotted to Biden. (This excludes coverage of the Trump administration in general when not associated with the President himself.) This is an even wider gap than in the spring, when Trump received seven times more coverage than Biden (523 minutes vs. 75 minutes).

The extra airtime devoted to Trump consisted almost entirely of anchors and reporters criticizing the President. During these two months, our analysts documented 668 evaluative statements about the President, 95 percent of which (634) were negative, vs. a mere five percent (34) that were positive. Using the same methodology mrc found very few evaluative statements about Joe Biden — just a dozen, two-thirds of which (67%) were positive.

Do the math. Viewers heard 150 TIMES more negative comments about Trump than Biden.”

Keep in mind that this survey included only ABC, NBC, and CBS. That’s not news reporting — and that’s not a ‘tilt’, but rather an ‘avalanche.’

On second thought, returning to his original comment, “Sure the media has some biases and many outlets tilt liberal,” . . .  my response now is:

“You are f-in looney-tunes if you believe ‘tilt’!”

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