Trump Tunnel Vision is Impairing the U.S. Press

The single-minded focus on negatively covering Donald Trump has made journalists careless, reckless and unreliable.

President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and members of the Coronavirus Task Force, speaks to members of the press Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)

It is becoming increasingly clear as various media watch-dog organizations meta-analyze media coverage of the Trump administration, that anti-Trump tunnel vision is impairing the judgement and perspective of journalists.

More than a few reporters and journalists have overlooked accurate sourcing and journalistic ethics in their rush to frame every political story and current event as negatively as possible for Donald Trump.

Especially popular news stories about heavily covered topics have often mislead readers about the actions and motivations of President Trump and his administration.

Russia

FBI transcripts were released last week of interviews with top officials under Obama admitting they never had direct evidence of collusion involving the Trump campaign. After a nearly two- year long investigation, the lack of evidence was confirmed.

But by this time, the news media already spent 438 minutes of airtime during a 6 week period covering the “collusion,” according to a report from MRC analysts.

Not only was there an extensive amount of coverage on a topic that proved to be false, but not all…