These are among the key findings of a new study of media coverage in the early days of the Biden presidency. adults say that the early coverage they’ve seen about the Biden administration offered mostly positive assessments, far more than the 14% who say they’ve seen mostly negative ones. At the same time, the public’s sense of news coverage of the Biden administration is more positive than the study of the news coverage reveals: 46% of U.S. For example, while the topic of the economy was covered most heavily by outlets with a left-leaning audience, a large majority of Americans, regardless of their media diet, report hearing a lot about the passage of the economic stimulus bill in the news. One new element of this year’s study – in Part 2 of this report – is a survey component that measures Americans’ exposure to and sense of news coverage during this early time period, how that differs by media diet, and how it compares with the analysis of media content in Part 1. Another significant difference in their coverage is that while the negative Biden stories modestly outnumbered the positive ones, negative stories about Trump exceeded positive ones by four-to-one. Then, 74% of all stories were oriented around his character and leadership, compared with only about one-quarter (26%) framed around his ideology and policy agenda. That framing is dramatically different from the coverage of the first few months of the Trump administration four years earlier. And in each of the three main media groupings studied, at least 59% of the stories were oriented around policy and agenda. Overall, 65% of the stories were framed around the new president’s policy agenda and ideology, compared with 35% around character and leadership. The one area where there was less divergence by media outlet group, however, was in the framing of the Biden stories. That pattern emerged in a number of different aspects of coverage of the Biden administration’s first 60 days – from the topics of stories to the sources cited in those stories. That stands in stark contrast to the 19% of stories with a negative assessment from outlets with left-leaning audiences and about a quarter of stories (24%) from outlets with a mixed audience. Fully 78% of the stories from outlets with predominantly right-leaning audiences carried a negative assessment. But those numbers varied widely by types of media outlets. Overall, 32% of stories about the Biden administration had a negative assessment, while 23% had a positive one and 45% were neither positive nor negative. News coverage of President Joe Biden’s early days in office was modestly more negative than positive, and most of the stories were centered around his ideology and policy agenda rather than his character and leadership – a contrast with coverage of former President Donald Trump at the start of his administration, according to a new Pew Research Center study that examines media coverage of the new administration. This is the latest report in Pew Research Center’s ongoing investigation of the state of news, information and journalism in the digital age, a research program funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, with generous support from the John S. See here to read more about the questions used for this report and the report’s methodology. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. Everyone who completed the survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. For more details, see the methodology.įor the survey analysis, we surveyed 12,045 U.S. The historical comparison is conducted across a smaller universe of outlets that existed during all five study periods, representing a mix of print publications and network evening news. The Center has also conducted similar analyses for the early months of the four prior administrations: those of Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Stories were collected from television, radio, digital and print outlets and coded by a team of nine coders trained specifically for this project. The analysis of media content is based on a selection of media coverage collected from Jan. The current study is comprised of two components, an analysis of media content and a survey analysis. The Center has analyzed news coverage of the beginning of each of the five presidential administrations since President Bill Clinton in 1993. Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand the news media coverage of the early days of the Biden administration and Americans’ perceptions of that coverage.
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