LOL - "Study Shows U.S. Election Coverage Harder on Bush"

[papau]

Folks turning to Internet news - bloggers alone have 32 million readers. More people thought the media was unfair to both Kerry and Bush than to the candidates four years earlier, but fewer people thought news organizations had too much influence on the outcome of the election. Coverage of the war in Iraq was even handed.?????

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=9&u=/nm/20050314/pl_nm/media_report_dc

Study Shows U.S. Election Coverage Harder on Bush

Mon Mar 14,10:01 AM ET By Claudia Parsons

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 State of the News Media 2005 (Project for Excellence in Journalism) http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2005/index.asp

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. <snip>