All throughout President Trump’s campaign and still to this day, Trump has been a huge critic of the media, as well as many other Republicans. Trump’s top claims are that the media is spitting out “Fake News,” and sources such as MSNBC and CNN aren’t reliable whereas Fox News is. This brings up a really great point though, is the media being more biased now than ever before? Much of the nation didn’t want Trump to become President, and more people want to see him fail rather than succeed. That being said, there clearly is a bias throughout the nation regarding Trump, and this has impacted many news outlets.
To start, let’s go over one of the most basic rules of journalism: be as un-biased as possible and just report the facts. This has been one of the oldest rules in journalism, but over time media outlets have evolved to sway one way or the other for views. People wanted news to fit their political views, so some outlets have swayed left, such as MSNBC, and others swayed right, such as Fox News. Outlets such as the New York Times and CNN are in the middle, not really swaying to one side more than the other.
As soon as Trump’s campaign started about two years ago, the media was fine; reporting was the same it’s been and articles toward Trump weren't really swayed one way. As soon as Trump started to actually speak what was on his mind, the media went crazy. Every media outlet started to publicize Trump for everything that he was saying, hoping it would hurt him in the polls, when in reality it helped him. However, due to all of this, the media started becoming more biased than it’s ever been. Once the media and the world started realizing Trump had an actual chance of winning the election, more and more news outlets started becoming insanely biased and everything was against Trump. It didn’t matter what the story was; he could have done something nice for someone but the left side of the media would just focus on the negative parts of it. Even to this day they still only criticize him and not focus on the news.
That being said, is the media out to get Trump? Is fake news really a thing? I believe that the media has it out for Trump. News outlets are insanely biased towards him, and all you ever see in the news is negative headlines pertaining to him. And I do believe some outlets exaggerate or fixate on certain facts just to make him look bad. You want to know what the worst part about all of this is? It’s affecting the nation. Badly. By turning the nation against your own President, you are creating turmoil in this country more than Trump is. Why do you think there have been so many “peaceful” protests, or might I say riots? Because the media advocates for this behavior and doesn’t report the negative effects of it. All that they’re worried about is burying Trump no matter what the consequences are.
So, I have one thing to say to all the media outlets out there. Stick to the facts. Please. The country is better off without your political views coming into the news. Your one job is to report on the news with the facts. That’s it. So, stop only reporting on what you believe will burry Trump, and give us the full story. Thanks.
