Ex-CNN Anchor Admits the Mainstream Media Has Become More Ideological Than Factual

While a former CNN anchor acknowledged the existence of the media politicizing their coverage of President Trump, current CNN host Brian Stelter tried to defend the media – but stumbled over the facts instead. Stelter slammed the Media Research Center’s documented analysis that media coverage of Trump’s first 80 days in the White House had been 89 percent negative, during a panel on his show Reliable Sources on April 30. “You’re citing a Media Research Center study,” Stelter retorted to former Trump advisor Jason Miller, “which is a conservative group, only looking at the three nightly newscasts, from their own conservative bent.”



Stelter can deny the existence of a media slant all he wants, but even some non-conservatives agree that the media are being overwhelmingly negative. Frank Sesno, the director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, made a similar point in an interview on Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson on April 30. Previously, Sesno had spent 21 years at CNN as a White House correspondent, anchor, and Washington Bureau Chief. “We have more politics in our coverage. We have more ideology in our media,” Sesno said. “This is where the media are going to have to make a stand, and you know, Washington Post’s [new motto], "Democracy Dies in Darkness," well that's, you know that sounds like a sequel to a Batman movie but it's, it's also both a calling and a flag in the ground.”