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Study: Media Used Conservative Memes To Cover Obamacare
Study: Media Used Conservative Memes To Cover Obamacare
—By Adam Serwer| Wed Jun. 20, 2012 12:48 PM PDT
The latest study from the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism found that, despite the conservative perception that the mainstream media has a liberal slant, coverage of the Affordable Care Act was dominated by rhetoric used by the law's opponents. According to Pew, "the concepts used by opponents were nearly twice as common as those used by supporters."
The report comes with a chart illustrating the discrepancy:
The Pew study found that, as with most public policy issues, matters of "strategy" dominated, making up 41 percent of coverage of the Affordable Care Act. "Descriptions of plans" and the "state of health care" combined took up only 31 percent. Yet the substantive message of the law's opponents clearly seeped through: Americans heard from the media that the law was bad.
More:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/06/study-media-adopted-frames-used-obamacare-opponents