On Friday, the American Political Science Association had a panel discussion on President Trump and the media, which later aired on C-SPAN. Former deputy press secretary Raj Shah expressed alarm at NewsBusters studies by Rich Noyes (and other studies) showing 90-percent negative coverage of the president. Former Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry wise-cracked that's because 90 percent of Trump's actions are crazy.

RAJ SHAH: It is tough, if you are the leader of the free world, and there's studies that come out that show 90-plus percent of primetime news coverage is negative. I mean, like, that's that's like alarming. You know what I mean? That level --

MIKE McCURRY: That's because 90 percent of the stuff he is doing is crazy. [Laughter]

SHAH: No, it's not. No, it's not. That's absurd. No, that's absurd.No, no, look, the news media has a ton of bias. It just does. and --

McCURRY: If there was a liberal bias in the press, I sure as hell wished it would've shown up that more frequently when I was at the podium. I didn't feel very comforted. I felt more afflicted.

SHAH: Well, I don't think partisan bias is the only form of bias. There is bias toward conventional wisdom, bias toward conflict, bias towards a lot of things but I do think there is pretty like unsparing partisan bias in news coverage. I think to kind of ignore that, or to pretend it is like not the driving force behind this conflict, is, I think kind of missing the point.