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Will the Media Be Trump's Accomplice Again in 2020? [View all]
The long opinion piece by Frank Bruni in the NYT includes a chilling acknowledgement concerning coverage, supported by data outlined in a report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
The study's author Thomas Patterson (who is Harvard's Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press) analyzed news coverage during the 2016 general election and concluded that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump received coverage that was overwhelmingly negative in tone and extremely light on policy.
“On topics relating to the candidates’ fitness for office, Clinton and Trump’s coverage was virtually identical in terms of its negative tone,” Patterson wrote.
Regarding their fitness for office, they were treated identically? In retrospect, that’s madness. It should have been in real time, too.
Regarding their fitness for office, they were treated identically? In retrospect, that’s madness. It should have been in real time, too.
Read the rest here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/opinion/trump-2020-media.html
https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-election/
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