MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is scheduled to sit down for an interview with Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs at 7 p.m. Wednesday [10-25-17] night, marking the 16th time that the president has been interviewed on a Fox television network, a preference unprecedented in the history of presidential TV interviews.
By contrast, he has appeared three times as president on NBC or MSNBC, once on CBS News, once on ABC news, and zero times on CNN, according to the count of Mark Knoller, a CBS News White House correspondent who has been tracking presidential press appearances since the Clinton administration. Trump has also given two interviews to the Christian Broadcast Network and one to Mike Huckabee—whose daughter serves as his press secretary—on the Trinity Broadcasting Network…
Kumar pointed out that Trump has done an increased number of short Q&A’s with reporters lately, which does alleviate some of the imbalance of him appearing so much on Fox. ‘I think that is an important tempering aspect of his focus on Fox,’ she said. ‘When he’s dealing with Fox, he’s dealing with his base. When he’s dealing with the pool of reporters, he’s dealing with the public beyond his base.’
A White House official did not respond immediately to request for comment.”
-Jason Schwartz, “Trump gives 16th interview to Fox,” Politico, Oct. 25, 2017 11:34am