COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 13/11/2019
Musa al-Gharbi
The way the press covers Donald Trump is unlike any other president in modern American history. Quantifiably so.
Communications scholar David Rozado (and two of his students, Mohammed Dinnunhan and Raymond Hua) developed a data-visualization tool to analyze coverage trends in the New York Times. I graphed all mentions of the terms “Carter,” “RJOUReagan,” “Bush,” “Clinton,” “Obama,” and “Trump” from 1975 through 2018. As depicted below, the difference between Trump and his predecessors is stark: