“One week before Election Day, a new analysis from the Media Research Center finds that broadcast evening news coverage of the 2024 presidential race has been the most lopsided in history,” the group reported on its NewsBusters website.

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The bias is likely not surprising, though the percentages are. What’s more, the efforts by network anchors, such as CBS’s Norah O’Donnell, to push far past normal criticism of Trump have sparked anger on social media.

For his report, Noyes looked at the number of and the spin in stories that ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted to the candidates. It wasn’t hard to discover their hate for Trump and embrace of Harris and her early, though now dead, “joy” campaign.

He found that the negative-positive spread was bigger than in the past two elections, which also featured Trump as the GOP nominee.

In 2016, for example, Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received mostly negative coverage, 91% and 79%. In 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden was treated to 66% positive coverage and Trump to 92% negative coverage.

Noyes said, “Since July, the big three have swamped their audiences with more than 230 minutes of airtime — virtually all of it negative — about an array of personal controversies surrounding the former president, yet provided extremely light coverage or altogether ignored many controversies involving Vice President Harris. Instead,

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Despite all the negative Trump coverage, Harris appears stuck in the polls and Trump has caught up and threatens to pass her with just over a week until Election Day.

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“So if Donald Trump regains the White House next week, the media’s campaign against him will have accomplished nothing, except the further erosion of their own reputations,” he added.