Media Matters report: Fox News host Sean Hannity, who has been informally advising Donald
Trump’s presidential campaign while serving as its primary media
cheerleader, has effectively turned his nightly prime-time show into
Trump’s second campaign headquarters. According to a Media Matters analysis,
Hannity’s program has given Trump what amounts to more than $31 million
in free advertising in the form of dozens of fawning interviews with
the candidate since Trump declared his candidacy in June 2015.
Hannity has devoted just over 22 hours of airtime to
broadcasting interviews with Trump since the launch of Trump’s campaign.
That airtime is worth more than $31 million according to advertising
value calculated by media monitoring service iQ Media. That coverage
includes 51 original interviews and over a dozen re-airings of
previously aired interviews. This year alone, Hannity has aired
thirteen and a half hours of Trump interviews, four and a half hours of
which have come since Ted Cruz and John Kasich dropped out of the
Republican primary in early May, effectively ending the race.
The reader should know that Hannity has offered Hillary all the time she might request, but, to date, nothing from the woman. The report from Media Matters does not offer a factual comparison of Hannity's actions with regard to the candidates, pre and post GOP primary, his offer for air time and who has rejected his offering. The fact of the matter is this: Trump accepted Hannity's audience as did Cruz. The others were offered more time than they utilized. Finally, the reader should know that the positive air time for Hillary is 5x that of Trump ~ blog editor.
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