2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumStudy: negative media coverage of Clinton soared in the last two weeks of the campaign
by Jeff Stein at Vox
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/7/13872580/media-coverage-presidential-election
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Ten of Americas most prominent media outlets ramped up their negative coverage of Hillary Clinton in the final two weeks of the presidential campaign while also writing fewer positive stories about her, according to a new report released today by Harvard University researchers.
From late September to the middle of October around the time of the presidential debates the ratio of critical coverage of Clinton was roughly three positive stories for every two negative ones.
But as the election headed to a close, that gap dramatically widened. In the final two weeks, there were closer to seven negative pieces about Clinton for every two positive pieces, according to the report from Harvards Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy.
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marybourg
(13,189 posts)Jean-Jacques Roussea
(475 posts)kimbutgar
(23,290 posts)Never any positive on daytime tv for her. The "fix"was in.
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pansypoo53219
(21,726 posts)riversedge
(73,134 posts)JCanete
(5,272 posts)overcorrected. That's assuming, and I still mostly think this, that the powers that own the media didn't actually want Trump to win, but that is where I may be greatly mistaken.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)unless one candidate is Trump
Igel
(36,110 posts)Mentioning the Comey thing and then saying it's not a big deal but a lot of people think that Comey was inappropriately meddling in electoral politics? That's mentioning a negative. And it's a lot of the stories.
Saying that HRC's losing grounds in the polls? That's mentioning a negative. And it's also a lot of the stories.
We hear "negative story" and we assume that it's saying something new and negative about the candidate when it's easily not the case for many of them.
Similar for the "positive stories" about Trump. "Trump's gaining ground, but thankfully the lying sexist bastard is still behind" is a positive story.
AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)killbotfactory
(13,566 posts)The media made the election into an absolute shitshow, while promising a Clinton victory, and it drove down voter turnout in enough states to matter.