According to a report from the Media Research Center, evening news segments from ABC, CBS, and NBC over a two-week span were “almost uniformly negative” towards President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks.
Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, and more were subjected to constant character attacks. Coverage was 96% negative over the two-week stretch.
“Across all three networks, the coverage of Gabbard, Patel, and the handful of other nominees mentioned was entirely negative. Only Pete Hegseth, who received the lion’s share of the airtime, enjoyed a scant four positive evaluative statements, all of which cited his mother describing him as ‘redeemed’ and ‘a changed man,’” MRC senior research analyst Bill D’Agostino wrote.
“To reiterate: the only positive commentary any Trump nominee received on the broadcast networks was from his own mother,” D’Agostino added. “In addition to a whopping 96 percent negative tilt across their flagship evening newscasts, these networks also appear to have paid the most attention to Cabinet nominees who appeared to have the highest chances of sinking.”
“While CBS had the most negative overall coverage of the Trump transition (96.7%), they actually were softer on Hegseth than their counterparts: 88 percent negative, making them the only network of the three not to cross the 90 percent negative barrier,” D’Agostino wrote.
MRC founder and president Brent Bozell blasted the coverage as “appalling.”
“This is as predictable as it is appalling. It is simply indefensible. But America is seeing through this agenda. And then the media wonder why their numbers are tanking,” Bozell told Fox News Digital.
“These radicals’ agenda to undermine and damage – no, destroy – a president-elect, verges on the anti-American,” Bozell added. “It’s 2016 all over again. Donald Trump won the presidency and immediately the radical media are out to sabotage him.”
More about the not-so-shocking report can be found at Fox News:
Breaking MRC Study: 96% negative coverage of president-elect Donald Trump’s appointees from the legacy media.
Read the Fox exclusive from @briansflood https://t.co/AZIs8rJa26
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) December 19, 2024
