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blog 2.3 Covering President Trump in a Polarized Media Enviroment

1. Outlets with a right-leaning audience cited fewer types of sources in their reporting, offered more positive and fewer negative evaluations of President Donald Trump and his administration, and had reporters who were less likely to challenge something the president said than outlets whose audience leans to the left or those with a more evenly distributed audience.
2. left-leaning audience and 62% from those with a more mixed audience included at least two of nine types of sources evaluated, such as a member of the administration, a member of Congress, or an outside expert. That was true, however, of less than half the stories (44%) from outlets with a right-leaning audience.outlets whose audience leans right of center were less likely to include Trump and his administration, outside experts or interest groups as sources. They were also about half as likely to include voices from both Democratic and Republican members of Congress
3.They were also at least three times less likely to carry negative assessments.
4.Overall, this occurred in one-in-ten stories, but it was about seven times as common in stories from outlets with a left-leaning audience (15%) than right-leaning ones (2%), while outlets with a more mixed audience fell in the middle (10%).
5.stories about the president’s political skills (17%), immigration (14%), presidential appointments and nominations (13%), U.S.-Russia relations (13%), and health care (9%).
6.Their character because after Watergate there has been a distinct distrust between the people and the government, and people react more to learning about their candidate's character.
7. Journalists cited the president or a member of his administration more frequently than any other source type.
8.Stories with two or more source types were more likely than stories with fewer source types to have an overall negative assessment.
9. roughly 16%
10.Trump's was different because he had a larger media universe. (aka the man couldn't stop tweeting stupid things)

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