NEW YORK – Media stories on the early days of the Biden administration focused more on policy than personality, a marked contrast to the beginning of Donald Trump's presidency, a study released Wednesday found.
Nearly two-thirds of Biden stories during his first two months in office were on his policy agenda and ideology, and 35% about his character and leadership style, the Pew Research Center found.
For Trump, three-quarters of the early stories were about his character and leadership, Pew said. Pew judged that 23% of the stories about Biden were generally positive, 32% negative and the rest mixed.
Meanwhile, Trump's early coverage was 11% positive and 44% negative. The dissonant note for the Democrat Biden was that 78% of the stories