Even left-leaning polls have consistently showed a majority of Americans approve of the way Donald Trump is preparing for his transition to the White House, but you wouldn't know it if you're one of the hundreds of consumers of network news in recent weeks. "The coverage by broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC has been almost uniformly negative," reports NewsBusters. "In addition to a whopping 96 percent negative tilt across their flagship evening newscasts, these networks also appear to have paid the most attention to cabinet nominees who appeared to have the highest chances of sinking." The study covers ABC, CBS, and NBC's evening newscasts from December 1-14. As for the apparently inverse relationship between what they're reporting and what the American people are feeling, it's hard not to draw a conclusion about the increasing irrelevance of Network News …
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There's only so much space in the White House press room.
I can't wait for him to start issuing passes to folks like joe rogan, john stossel; some podcasters; a few local newspapers like in Cleveland, Cedar Rapids, Reno, Cheyanne, Lubbock, Shreveport, Memphis, etc. All those new media folks filling the room, they'll just have to kick out the 3-letter agencies.
Not discriminatory ya know, it's the Fire Code limits ...