They Just Can't Help Themselves: MRC Reports 95% Negative Legacy Media Coverage of Trump AFTER Second Assassination Attempt

According to a media analysis from the Media Research Center, news networks ABC, CBS, and NBC’s coverage of Donald Trump following the second attempt on his life was 95% negative.

“Over the three nights, we tallied 21 evaluative comments about the GOP candidate, 20 of which were negative, which computes to a 95% negative spin score,” the MRC reported.

From MRC:

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. Out of 48 minutes of coverage of the attempted shooting, the three networks spent less than two minutes (1 minute, 53 seconds) on the possibility that Democrats could share the blame.

All of the networks treated the charge as a cynical deflection. 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.” 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.

If Sunday’s shooting is a sign that American political discourse has become too negative and too nasty, then the media coverage immediately following the event was its own cause for concern. 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.

During the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump said he probably took a bullet because of the extreme rhetoric on the Left.

Watch the clip below:

I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me pic.twitter.com/ygk5W3aw9V

— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) September 11, 2024

Here’s a supercut of pundits and entertainers referring to Trump as a threat to Democracy and comparing him to Hitler:

Let's talk about the attempted assassin tweeting the media's favorite line: "Democracy is on the ballot."

Let's talk about how often the media claim that Trump is Hitler, or that he'll destroy democracy.

Let's talk about "stochastic terrorism."pic.twitter.com/BdgrcYwEAb

— Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) September 16, 2024

They still won’t stop.

Full report over at the Media Research Center:

The leftist media gave Trump 95% negative coverage in the first 72 hours following his second assassination attempt.

Read more: https://t.co/AG2v5uigMh pic.twitter.com/HPm0aQoRYX

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) September 18, 2024