Ninety-two percent of the broadcast networks' news coverage of President Donald Trump's immigration policy has been negative, according to a new study by the Media Research Center.
Only 8 percent of the coverage has been positive, the conservative media watchdog said.
It noted the networks' coverage of the administration's immigration policy has been "relentlessly hostile."
ABC, CBS and NBC evening news programs have spent a combined 995 minutes focusing in on a variety of immigration topics since Trump was inaugurated. The issue came in second to the Russia investigation as the most covered topic. The Russia probe received a combined 1,680 minutes of airtime, the MRC reported.
It said the negative coverage is a result of reporters framing most of their coverage around those adversely impacted by Trump's enforcement program instead of those harmed by illegal immigration, according to the MRC.
Nearly 44 percent pf the 1,087 sound bites from nonpartisan sources came from victims of the Trump policies, including illegal immigrants and their families. By contrast, the network news aired 83 soundbites from law enforcement.
And the MRC noted: "During the past 18 months, the networks' coverage of immigration has not been news, but rather obvious advocacy — heroes vs. villains, good guys vs. bad guys — with the administration clearly wearing the black hats."
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