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Political Media Blackout and Bias in 2016 Presidential Nominations

Surrealistik said:
Interesting article that attempts to quantify and illustrate media bias in the 2016 presidential nominations:

2016 Presidential Media Blackouts: Not Just Conspiracy – Decision Data
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Interesting yet shallow. There are plenty of other factors that can go into those numbers than just the 3 variables they have chosen. Sanders was relatively unknown and Clinton is one of the most known people, that's a big factor why Sanders has more Google searches. Also Clinton was in the news a lot for the e-mail scandal so there are a bunch of articles that wouldn't have been written otherwise.
 

Ultimately, searches aside, it's doubtful whether the extreme disparity between Clinton and Bernie in terms of air time/media mentions can be explained away by his initial novelty, and the e-mail scandal, especially post-Malley.
 
Surrealistik said:
Ultimately, searches aside, it's doubtful whether the extreme disparity between Clinton and Bernie in terms of air time/media mentions can be explained away by his initial novelty, and the e-mail scandal, especially post-Malley.
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It goes deeper than that, Clinton's supporters are older and more likely to consume MSM as thier main source of news and Bernie has a huge advantage with younger people who are more likely to do Google searches and distrust the MSM.
 
Crovax said:
It goes deeper than that, Clinton's supporters are older and more likely to consume MSM as thier main source of news and Bernie has a huge advantage with younger people who are more likely to do Google searches and distrust the MSM.
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I'm talking simply about media coverage and mentions; ignoring searches entirely, Clinton enjoys coverage in vast disproportion to polling, which is their other observation. It is rather doubtful this discrepancy can be entirely attributed to the e-mail scandal.
 
I don't think House of Clintons on Netflix is helping Hillary though.
 
Erod said:
I don't think House of Clintons on Netflix is helping Hillary though.
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No, but she will do well with those that think Trump is XXXX.
 
JANFU said:
No, but she will do well with those that think Trump is XXXX.
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I think Trump is XXXX, but I'd vote for a rented mule before I would Hillary.
 
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