“We’ve got plenty of things to improve on. Giving Trump gratuitous strokes is not one of them.”
By Margaret Sullivan; Washington Post:
The New York Daily News’s front page on Friday morning screamed “LIAR” in huge type over a photo of President Trump.
USA Today’s banner headline seconded the motion: “Comey calls Trump a liar.” On cable channels, in broadcast news, and even in the sedate Wall Street Journal, Friday morning was one of those days for Trump in the mainstream news media.
In the words of the Judith Viorst children’s book title, it was for Trump another terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
“No wonder Trump is retreating to his Fox News cocoon,” said longtime Washington public relations man Allan Schlosser. “Everywhere else you look, the coverage is overwhelmingly bad for him.”
But that’s nothing new. Last month, a Harvard study reported that in Trump’s first 100 days, about 80 percent of mainstream press coverage reflected negatively on the new president. And the sheer amount of negative news was unprecedented.
Conservative media were quick to laud the study, labeling it as proof of liberal media bias — and even better from their point of view, emanating from a cultural-elite bastion like Harvard.
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Americans Are Sick of the Negative Coverage of the President
By Chris Wagoner; OpsLens:
Having been a public servant for my entire adult life, I find it tiring to listen to the constant negative media coverage about our President and his family.
When President Obama was in office, I do not remember this type of negativity from the media. I don’t remember Hollywood crying. But what speaks more about anything the media does cover, is what it does not. Sometimes omission is as bad as overdoing something.
Did you hear about the Memorial Day meeting between 6-year-old Christian Jacobs, his mother Brittany, President Trump and Vice President Pence? Of course you didn’t. It would not play well into the negativity that we get bombarded with daily. It would show the President and Vice President in a positive light, and that can not be allowed according to the mainstream media.
On Memorial Day, Christian was at Arlington National Cemetery to honor his father, Marine Corp Sgt. Christopher Jacobs, who was killed during a military training exercise. The President and Vice President were there to take part in the Memorial Day Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Following the ceremony, President Trump and Vice President Pence decided to spend some time with Goldstar families who were visiting their loved ones on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery. Among the families were Christian and his mother, Brittany. Six year old Christian was dressed in a crisp Marine Corps dress uniform, wearing the hat of his father. President Trump and VP Pence both saw Christian and decided to try and make the emotionally difficult day of visiting his hero father a little easier. I mean for a six-year-old boy whose father died in the military, what could be better than telling the President and Vice President about your dad? Christian held up a photo of his father and told President Trump about him, and President Trump engaged the young man in conversation.
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