Thursday, December 27, 2007

More Anti-Clinton Media Bias Exposed


In a recent post I linked to an article by Jonathan Tilove, a National Correspondent for the Newhouse News Service documenting the vicious misogynistic attacks against Hillary Clinton in her campaign for the presidency.

On a related topic, The Center for Media and Public affairs has just released a study documenting that TV election news hits Hillary Clinton hardest among all the candidates:

TV election news has been hardest on Hillary Clinton this fall, while Barack Obama and MikeHuckabee have been the biggest media favorites, according to a new study by the Center for Mediaand Public Affairs (CMPA) at George Mason University. The study also found that Fox News Channel’s evening news show provided more balanced coverage than its counterparts on the broadcast networks.

Major findings of the study were summarized as follows:

Hillary Pilloried? On-air evaluations of Hillary Clinton were nearly 3 to 2 negative (42% positive vs. 58% negative comments), while evaluations of her closest competitor Barack Obama was better than 3 to 2 positive (61% positive vs. 39% negative). John Edwards attracted much less coverage, but his evaluations were 2 to 1 positive (67% positive vs. 33% negative). Sen. Clinton was evaluated more often than all her Democratic opponents combined.

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