>>>Like Trump, he spewed constant fodder, and they pilloried that man relentlessly.
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>Yes. And the Harvard study includes the last 3 presidents including GWB, concluding that Trump is subject to far more negativity than any of them.
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>IMHO these media people catastrophizing and crying "wolf" every day, are writing themselves out of the national consciousness. Which is a shame since media is supposed to be the 4th Estate of democracy whose power is being obliterated by abuse of their station.
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Conclusions from the same Harvard study you cite, which I think are important in defining the context:

"…the fact that Trump has received more negative coverage than his predecessor is hardly surprising. The early days of his presidency have been marked by far more missteps and miss-hits, often self-inflicted, than any presidency in memory, perhaps ever."
and, also
"Never in the nation’s history has the country had a president with so little fidelity to the facts, so little appreciation for the dignity of the presidential office, and so little understanding of the underpinnings of democracy. The media’s credibility today is at low ebb, but the Trump presidency is not the time for the press to pull back."
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