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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 by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 29, 2008

In-depth, responsible, and well-research as is the norm from PEJ, they presented several issues with the media's campaign coverage I found important. These included the cable channel's alignments, and the dominance of the horserace in political coverage overall.

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