ABC News journalist Jon Karl’s just-released book Front Row at the Trump Show, features the usual denunciations of Donald Trump’s “war on truth.” But it diverges from screeds like Jim Acosta’s anti-Trump tome. This one actually concedes the hard-left bias from the mainstream media. Karl also hammers CNN counterpart Acosta as a “rude” opportunist who plays right into the hands of Donald Trump.
We at the Media Research Center read all 340 pages of Karl's book. Let's begin with the admissions of just how biased the press is:
In the introduction on page XXII, Karl, the chief White House correspondent for ABC News slammed the President as a serial liar: “The president is waging a war on truth, helping to convince millions of Americans that real news is fake, that journalists are partisans out to get him.”
But Karl then concedes:
“But the truth is that the mainstream media coverage of Donald Trump is relentlessly and exhaustively negative. His accomplishments – and there are accomplishments – are either ignored or overshadowed by the drumbeat of outrage fueled by his own outrageous behavior.”
On page 147, chronicling the early days of the Trump White House, Karl again admits, almost as an aside, the “relentlessly negative” coverage and “plenty” of “media bias.”
“As he settled into the White House, Donald Trump actually had good reason to be outraged by what was being reported about his administration. The biggest issue wasn’t the relentlessly negative tone of the news coverage, although it was certainly relentlessly negative. And the central problem wasn’t media bias, although there was plenty of that. The real issue was closer to home: Private details of the inner workings of his White House were all over the news.”
The media coverage of Trump is “relentlessly and exhaustively negative”? Karl sounds like MRC Research Director Rich Noyes, who has consistently found network evening news coverage to be over 90 percent negative.
read more here: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/04/15/new-book-jon-karl-admits-press-hates-trump-hits-acosta-rude-jerk
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