The Color of News: How Different Media Have Covered the General Election

Journalism.org | Oct. 29, 2008 (Special Report)

Newspapers, in turn, devoted less space to policy stories than any other media sector during these six weeks of the general election period. Policy coverage made up 13% of newspaper stories compared to 20% of all campaign coverage in all outlets. Full Story »

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Chris Finnie
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 by Chris Finnie - Oct. 31, 2008

While I found the results surprising, I also found them hard to evaluate. How did they rate the stories? What did they consider negative or positive? Who did the rating? How many people were involved? Is this the same Pew Research that does the polling? Is that how they did this rating? If so, who did they poll? Without know any of this, it's hard to say much more than that.

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