Vox: Media positively biased towards Trump

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In late 2015, Donald Trump proposed banning all Muslims from entering the US after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.

It was a reaction that took advantage of our fears, and a religious test reminiscent of America’s worst mistakes — notably the Japanese internment camps that incarcerated 110,000 innocent Americans during World War II. This picture is haunting. But this wasn’t the driving narrative we told ourselves about Trump.

I looked at the lead story during the past two years from the websites of the New York Times and Fox News around noon (using the Wayback Machine), and then charted out when certain stories were covered. Here’s when Trump’s anti-Muslim proposal led these sites:

This short burst of focus on the Muslim ban is also reflected in Google search data. The only times it reemerged was when Trump attacked the Muslim judge and the Khan family — but those, too, went away quickly.

Yes, Trump was admonished in the media and his logic debunked, but his anti-Muslim plans didn’t disqualify him. In fact, Trump supporters pretty much agreed with his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the country — and it actually tapped into a white nationalist backlash.

So what did we focus on instead?

From looking at two years of front pages, it seems we couldn’t stay focused on his racist policy proposals, but rather we kept coming back to the way powerful people reacted to them. It was as if we needed them to tell us it was wrong, rather than just showing what exclusionary policies look like and realizing it was wrong on our own.

Full story: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/15/13564522/trump-muslim-ban-front-pages

Diagram of headlines related to Trump's controversies:

Headlines about Hillary Clinton's e-mail "scandal:

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Not surprising. False equivalency was something the mainstream media embraced for some reason this election cycle and what they kept going back to was the emails...over and over and over. 

Now, we are going to have a white nationalist champion in the most important position in the west wing. 

The media normalized Trump's racism and bigotry, in various ways too complicated to get into here, and it did nothing but rile up his mostly white base and give others an out to overlook it all. 

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Damn. That's really terrible... this is also one of the main problems with private media: they go for clicks, not for objective, balanced reporting.