Despite all the talk of CNN's temporary press pool ban banishing Trump from television, the channel continued to cover him just as much as usual and mentions of him remain elevated across the three channels. What's interesting though is that since February of this year, MSNBC/MSNOW coverage has remained fairly stable, while CNN decreased its mentions through April and then stabilized, while Fox News has linearly decreased their mentions of Trump week-over-week through present. It seems that Fox News continues to pivot away from the president, while MSNOW continues to mention him heavily. Since 2009, MSNBC/MSNOW has mentioned him 2.95M times, CNN 2.29M times and Fox News 1.84M times. Combined, the three channels have mentioned him 7.09M times through yesterday!
Here we can see all three channels since July 2009 using a 3-week rolling average at weekly resolution:
Looking just at Fox we can see this strong pivot away:
Let's look at day-level mentions using a 14-day rolling average to see the micro-level patterns a bit stronger:
And finally, let's look at daily resolution without smoothing to see just how much variability there is day-to-day, but that there is strong
