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BIG - HUGE - SHOCKING - SURPRISE!
Study Shows U.S. Election Coverage Harder on Bush
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. media coverage of last year's election was three times more likely to be negative toward President Bush than Democratic challenger John Kerry, according to a study released Monday.
The annual report by a press watchdog that is affiliated with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism said that 36 percent of stories about Bush were negative compared to 12 percent about Kerry, a Massachusetts senator.
Only 20 percent were positive toward Bush compared to 30 percent of stories about Kerry that were positive, according to the report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The study looked at 16 newspapers of varying size across the country, four nightly newscasts, three network morning news shows, nine cable programs and nine Web sites through the course of 2004.
Can always rely on your :spin:Pacridge said:Big surprise. Do dumb stuff- press reports it as dumb. Yep! big surprise there.
anomaly said:I wonder how many of those news sources you mentioned are from Fox news?
FOX has that big of a monopoly?The study looked at 16 newspapers of varying size across the country, four nightly newscasts, three network morning news shows, nine cable programs and nine Web sites through the course of 2004.
Not quite that huge.anomaly said:And does this count the incredible influence from the Catholic Church to vote Republican? That influence is huge, considering about 30-40% of Americans are Catholic.
This Fox fixation is quite interesting, isn't it Batman? It seems that a lot of posts here, end up by bringing Fox into it like they are some big bad boogie man, who have so much power. The study isn't a big surprise to me. Dan Rather had to go ask the Viet-Cong about Kerry's honesty, instead of the people who actually served with him. Then he used forged documents to try to discredit President Bush's National Guard Service.FOX has that big of a monopoly?
Squawker said:This Fox fixation is quite interesting, isn't it Batman? It seems that a lot of posts here, end up by bringing Fox into it like they are some big bad boogie man, who have so much power. The study isn't a big surprise to me. Dan Rather had to go ask the Viet-Cong about Kerry's honesty, instead of the people who actually served with him. Then he used forged documents to try to discredit President Bush's National Guard Service.
That's because the ones on the boat, didn't see what the other men saw. The evidense against Kerry was overwhelming, yet the left wing media refused to air it, or even interview the Swift Boat Vets.have yet to hear one guy who actual served time on Kerry's boat come out against him.
Well, I think you misread something. I was asking if any of those sources were Fox News, not saying they all were. Also, as regards to the Catholic Church, even if those numbers are correct, that is a huge influence over politics.Batman said:FOX has that big of a monopoly?
Not quite that huge.
24.5 - 26 percent.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_deno.htm
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/99/990122.catholic.shtml
Squawker said:That's because the ones on the boat, didn't see what the other men saw. The evidense against Kerry was overwhelming, yet the left wing media refused to air it, or even interview the Swift Boat Vets.
Batman said:BIG - HUGE - SHOCKING - SURPRISE!
Squawker said:That's because the ones on the boat, didn't see what the other men saw. The evidense against Kerry was overwhelming, yet the left wing media refused to air it, or even interview the Swift Boat Vets.
If one or more of those sources were FOX NEWS, the outcome of the study was still the same - more positive stories about Kerry.anomaly said:Well, I think you misread something. I was asking if any of those sources were Fox News, not saying they all were.
:boohoo: You're breaking my heart. The study was about ELECTION COVERAGE - the point of view in which the candidates were covered. If the study was called Bush started a war and killed tens of thousands of people, then your theory would make more sense.26 X World Champs said:I guess if you start a war and kill tens of thousands of people the odds of poor new-stories increase? How shocking is that?
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