May 192017
Harvard Study Reveals Huge Anti-Trump Media Bias
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May 192017
Harvard Study Proves Trump Was Right About Negative Media Coverage
The Mainstream Media isn’t even pretending to be objective anymore. Fox news at 52% negative and 48% positive… sounds almost balanced in their reporting. They still lean negative though.
From Heat Street:
A major new study out of Harvard University has revealed the true extent of the mainstream media’s bias against Donald Trump.
Academics at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzed coverage from Trump’s first 100 days in office across 10 major TV and print outlets.
It found that the tone of some outlets was negative in as many as 98% of reports, significantly more hostile than the first 100 days of the three previous administrations:
In America they analyzed CNN, NBC, CBS, Fox News, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
They also took into account the BBC, the UK’s Financial Times and the German public broadcaster ARD.
Every outlet was negative more often than positive.
Only Fox News, which features some of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters and is often given special access to the President, even came close to positivity.
Fox was ranked 52% negative and 48% positive.
The study also divided news items across topics. On immigration, healthcare, and Russia, more than 85% of reports were negative.
On the economy, the proportion was more balanced – 54% negative to 46% positive:
The study highlighted one exception: Trump got overwhelmingly positive coverage for launching a cruise missile attack on Syria.
Around 80% of all reports were positive about that.
The picture was very different for other recent administrations. The study found that President Obama’s first 100 got positive good overall – with 59% of reports positive.
Bill Cinton and George W Bush got overall negative coverage, it found, but to a much lesser extent than Trump. Clinton’s first 100 days got 40% positivity, while Bush’s got 43%:
Trump has repeatedly claimed that his treatment by the media is unprecedented in its hostility. This study suggests that, at least in recent history, he’s right.
May 192017
Vietnam War Veteran’s Body Displayed At Wake Without Coffin
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May 192017
A Georgia funeral home refused to put Veteran George Taylor in a casket because of problems with his life insurance payment.
People are outraged over photos on social media of a Vietnam War veteran displayed at his wake on a gurney covered in an American flag.
No coffin was available for the visitation held at Heritage Funeral Home in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, WTVC reports.
“At first we were okay with it,” said a family member, “but like I told the guy, I said this was very disrespectful to my dad.”
Taylor’s family said the funeral home refused to put George Taylor in a casket because of problems with his life insurance payment.
Taylor’s son, James, said the family was given little notice of the problem prior to the visitation.
“They came to me and told me that unless $9,000 was paid, they couldn’t put him into the ground,” he told ABC 7 New York.
“Mr. Taylor was a two-term Vietnam Vet,” wrote Ella Moss on Facebook. “We live in the Greatest Country in the world, and this is the best we can do for our soldiers. Not even a pillow for his head.”
Funeral home representative David Cummings said they did what the family asked.
“We were trying to honor the request and let them have some closure by viewing their loved one.”
Watch George Taylor’s tribute video here
Photo: Facebook / Ella Moss
May 192017
Things you can say in response to literally anything, when you have nothing else to say:
* As the prophecy foretold.
* But at what cost?
* So let it be written; so let it be done.
* So, it’s come to this.
* That’s just what (he)(she)(they) would’ve said.
* And this is why fate brought us together.
* And thus, I die.
* …just like in my dream…
* Be that as it may, still may it be as it may be.
* There is no escape from destiny
* Wise words by wise men write wise deeds in wise pen.
* In THIS economy?
* …and then the wolves came.