Bush gets 4 X media coverage as Kerry;steep slide since March

[librechik]

http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert235.shtml
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"During an average evening newscast in June, the networks were nearly four times as likely to mention President Bush as the Democratic presidential candidate. By contrast, in March of this year, network mention of Senator Kerry (40 percent of all coverage of Kerry, Bush and Ralph Nader) nearly rivaled coverage of incumbent Bush (59 percent).

ABC World News Tonight gave the least attention to Kerry and his campaign in June, devoting only 15.8 percent of its candidate coverage to the Massachusetts senator. In June, the half-hour newscast devoted 83.2 percent of its candidate coverage to Bush, according to the Media Tenor/Media for Democracy data. (Get the full Media Tenor / Media for Democracy study)

Continuing analysis into July shows that Kerry enjoyed a jump in network coverage following his selection of Senator John Edwards as his running mate, but that this attention flattened to June levels during the last week surveyed -- July 12 through 16.

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"John Kerry has had an increasingly hard time competing with the president for television news coverage," said Media Tenor President Roland Schatz. "Bush, as head of state, was expected to have a natural edge in coverage, but our study shows a precipitous decline in focus on Kerry, which should be ringing alarms at the Democratic contender's campaign headquarters."

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And the talking heads keep wondering why Kerry still needs to "define himself" to the American people.

:grr: :grr: :grr:


:nuke:

[Cha]

1. We can hope the public at large get sick of bush...

took me about a 1/4 of a second.

That's why F9/11 is soooo Awesome cause Moore gets bush up there on the wide screen digging himself a deeper hole.

[unblock]

2. this should be ringing alarms at the free press, if we had one

yet more compelling evidence of a right-wing bias in the media.

there's NO WAY that either candidate should have a 4-1 edge in coverage going into the conventions and only 4 months before the elections.

unless the media had a right-wing bias.

naw, couldn't be :eyes:

[bucknaked]

3. Anybody who says "these polling numbers are good for Bush because..."

"...all the bad press."

Please! This is the man who was President during the most unifying tragedy since Pearl '41, the man who could ordered the invasion of Iraq (another unifying experience for the masses of our Country), and he can (politically) lay claim to "capturing Saddam..." and that was only months ago!

Throw all comparisons out the damn window! This race has no comparison! A relatively unheard of Senator is neck in neck with the most popular incumbent in recent history!