CNN's Berman Picks Wrong Data From Harvard Media Study to Falsely Taint Fox
By Tom Blumer | May 22, 2017 | 10:37 AM EDT
On Thursday morning, Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy issued a report which confirmed what NewsBusters reported in April, namely that President Donald Trump "has received unsparing coverage for most weeks of his presidency, without a single major topic where Trump’s coverage, on balance, was more positive than negative, setting a new standard for unfavorable press coverage of a president."
On Sunday, CNN's John Berman tried to cast Fox News as a conservatively biased outlier — as opposed to the relatively fair and balanced entity it has actually been during the Trump administration's early months — by selecting results of one tiny element of the Shorenstein report and presenting it as if it was the study's comprehensive conclusion.
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