Monday, April 23, 2012

WINGNUTS & THE TRUTH

We've heard for years that the Press, or "Obama-mania media" as Hannity derides it, strongly favors Pres. Obama.  Of course the truth, as found by Pew research, is quite different:
Obama suffers more negative press than GOP, Pew study shows
By Morgan Little
April 23, 2012, 2:10 p.m.
LA Times

WASHINGTON -- Which presidential candidate has gotten the most negative coverage in the press during this year’s primary? According to content analysis by the Pew Research Center, it’s President Obama.

Pew’s study was built around two means of gathering data. More than 11,000 news outlets were surveyed via computer-assisted analysis from Crimson Hexagon to determine the degree to which coverage was deemed positive or negative. At the same time, individual researchers took a sample of 52 news outlets and used them to build the data pertaining to the amount of coverage and the way in which it was framed.
Here's the relevant graph from the Pew study:

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