Why Trump is right about media bias

The media continues to spin the narrative that the wheels are falling off the Trump campaign.

If I didn’t consume as much news as I do, and just watched the networks sparingly, it would look to me like Trump was still kicking babies out of his rallies when in fact, his campaign has shifted its message. He’s been softening his rhetoric on immigration and reaching out to minorities. He recently held a national security roundtable, which wasn’t covered by the media until days later.

This election year has put media bias in the national spotlight. Donald Trump has repeatedly called out the media for its biased reporting. At times, he has even revoked news agencies’ press credentials after they published a negative story — which I do not support.

It’s understood that writers generate sensational headlines to grab the reader’s attention, but that should not carry into the news story as it so often has in this election year.

One example of over-sensationalizing the story was after a press conference in July when Trump sarcastically asked Russia to find Clinton’s lost emails. “Donald Trump asked Russia to ‘help’ find the missing emails,” read an NBC News story. Anyone who watched the press conference could tell that Trump said that in jest. Yet, few reports mentioned that his comment was sarcastic. Even when Trump said he was being sarcastic, the media continued to report on the comment seriously.