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.
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This short news analysis has journalistic merit. The problem is that it hides the main point at the very end, that Obama had a much more favorable press than McCain. The fact about CBS, NBC, and ABC, that they were more neutral than elsewhere, ignores that they still were heavily biased toweard the Democrats.This piece covers a small set of outlets that still were much more favorable to Obama and much more unfavorable to McCain than neutral.
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