{"id":12632,"date":"2020-09-21T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12632"},"modified":"2020-09-20T23:10:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T06:10:19","slug":"how-american-journalism-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-american-journalism-died\/","title":{"rendered":"How American Journalism Died"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93 percent of CNN\u2019s coverage of the Trump administration was negative. The center found similarly negative Trump coverage at other major news outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The election year 2020 has only accelerated that asymmetrical bias \u2014 to the point that major newspapers and network and cable-news organizations are now fused with the Joe Biden campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes stories are covered only in terms of political agendas. Take COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The media assure us that the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the pandemic has been a disaster. But their conclusions are not supported by any evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the United States, the coronavirus death rate per million people is similar to, or lower than, most major European countries except Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93 percent of CNN\u2019s coverage of the Trump administration was negative. The center found similarly negative Trump coverage at other major news outlets. 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