"negative news coverage" is a correct and usable term in written English.
You could use it to describe any type of media coverage that is negative in tone or focuses on a bad story. For example, "The senator was unhappy with the negative news coverage that followed his comments on immigration."
But in the 2000 presidential elections, the P.L.D. lost, and Mr. Perez -- who had returned to the Dominican Republic after having been removed from the consulate in January -- was blamed by some in the party for having hobbled its operations in New York by having generated negative news coverage.
The negative news coverage has subsided considerably.
Mr. DiFrancesco and his supporters deny that, and instead blame negative news coverage.
A top Gore strategist said the goal was to drum up enthusiasm among supporters but to avoid negative news coverage.
Instead of discussing new office parks and glimmering shopping malls, city officials are facing a drumbeat of negative news coverage.
Mr. Dopp is at the center of several inquiries into the plan to discredit Mr. Bruno by generating negative news coverage of his use of state aircraft.
The news precipitated a slew of negative news media coverage and an exodus of students.
His critics should "spend less time complaining" about negative news media coverage, he said, "and fix it".
More than a month later, Governor Rendell is enjoying a reprieve from months of negative budget news coverage, the local church that sponsors the American women's work with orphans is reportedly receiving record donations and 42 of the orphans are in the care of American families who had applied to adopt them.
But Henderson bristled when asked if the Mets may have been trying to send him a message, setting off a lengthy monologue on what he perceives to be the negative news-media coverage of him.
In the Panhandle the percent rating him favorably dropped to 41 percent from 51 percent over this period — a trend that's consonant with the negative tenor of news coverage about him during much of this time.
