Liberal columnist claims Biden gets worse press coverage than Trump, media needs to do 'soul-searching'

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank doubled down Monday on his recent op-ed that claimed "sentiment analysis" data proved the media is tougher on President Biden than they were on former President Trump.

Milbank's piece, titled, "The media treats Biden as badly as - or worse than - Trump. Here's proof," cited research from Forge.ai, a data analytics unit of the information company FiscalNote. The study used algorithms focused on adjectives and their placement in articles - more than 200,000 of them - to rate the coverage Biden received in the first 11 months of 2021 and the coverage Trump got in the first 11 months of 2020. Biden was often on the worse end of the stick when it came press coverage in the past four months, the findings purported to find. 

"My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy," Milbank said.

Conservatives scoffed at the report as laughable, considering how the media flattered Biden in the early stages of his presidency, some even dedicating on-air segments to his favorite ice cream flavors, mothballing fact-checking databases they used on his predecessor Donald Trump, and praising him at press conferences.

The editorial boards of nearly every newspaper in the country endorsed Hillary Clinton and Biden over Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections.