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Despite Shooting, ABC, CBS and NBC Blast Trump with 95% Bad Press

Sep 18, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    32% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -70% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Overall Sentiment

-48% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : "CBS Weekend News reporter Skyler Henry similarly linked Trump to the situation in Springfield, running a clip of Trump from the debate -- "They're eating the dogs" -- before scolding: "The city has been thrust into the national conversation on immigration with unsubstantiated claims immigrants are eating pets.
33% : Yet even as they covered the shocking new danger to Trump, the networks persisted in bashing the GOP candidate on a range of other issues -- as well as his reaction to his own close call.
30% : It appears not even the second near-death experience of the former President is cause for even a brief cease-fire in the ongoing onslaught of negativity against Trump that marks TV's 2024 campaign coverage.
29% : On Sunday, less than four hours after news of the shooting broke, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt scolded Trump for his rhetoric: "Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself.
23% : On Monday's CBS Evening News, anchor Norah O'Donnell decided to blast Trump yet again for the "cats and dogs" meme: "Donald Trump is blaming Democrats for inflaming political rhetoric, but the former President's own words seem to be increasing the threat of political violence in Springfield Ohio.
21% : "These networks gave relatively little time to the accusation that these attempted shootings might have been influenced by Democratic rhetoric painting Trump as an existential threat.
20% : On Tuesday, CBS's Caitlin Huey-Burns ran a clip of Vance blasting Democratic rhetoric before immediately countering: "Both Vance and Trump have a record of attacking their opponents.
11% : On NBC Monday night, reporter Garrett Haake rejected Trump's argument: "Trump has also used incendiary language against Democrats, and authorities have not yet revealed a motive in either incident."
8% : "He says Trump and Vance should apologize," Killion relayed.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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