A new study compared major networks' coverage of the presidential election and found that Vice President Kamala Harris received the most biased coverage in the country's history.
The Media Research Center evaluated Harris' coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC and found that 78% of coverage of the vice president was positive, compared to 22% negative.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, received a whopping 85% negative press coverage and only 15% positive press coverage.
That equated to a 63-point advantage in positive coverage for Harris, the largest difference in history. study.
The report analyzed 660 evening newscasts on major networks from July 21, when President Joe Biden withdrew from the race, to October 25.
The survey was split almost evenly between the three major networks. NBC was 8 hours and 20 minutes; 8 hours and 13 minutes on CBS. ABC has 7 hours and 42 minutes.
At the time, of the 753 minutes devoted to Mr. Trump, about 230 minutes (almost a third) of the coverage was devoted to his personal controversies.
By comparison, just 28 minutes of Harris' total 583 minutes of reporting were devoted to similar topics.
Harris' coverage was filled with glowing quotes from voters and was described as generally trying to create a positive “tone” for the Democratic candidate.
Credit: NewsBusters/Media Research Center
Believe it or not, Vice President Harris' 63-point gap in approval ratings was much larger than when Trump faced Hillary Clinton.
Coverage of both candidates in 2016 was overwhelmingly negative. Clinton received 79% negative coverage, while Trump received 91% negative coverage.
For President Trump, these numbers more accurately represent the situation he faced in 2020, which was also the second-largest gulf in positive coverage in election history.
President Trump's positive coverage ratings for Biden in 2020 were an astonishingly low 8%, but the current sitting president saw networks giving him 66% more airtime.
This 58-point difference in 2020 and the 63-point difference in 2024 are a stark contrast to how extremely negative the coverage has been since President Trump entered politics.
This is further illustrated by what is considered the third largest gap in positive coverage, between Democrat Barack Obama (68% positive coverage) and Republican John McCain ( (33% positive coverage), the difference was just 35 points.
The fourth largest gap was in 1992, when Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton (Democrat) had a 23-point lead over incumbent President George H.W. Bush (Republican) on positive press coverage.
Rounding out the top five was John Kerry's 22-point lead in 2004 on positive coverage of incumbent President George W. Bush.
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