Study: McCain coverage mostly negative

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By MICHAEL CALDERONE | 10/22/08

The good news for John McCain? He's now receiving as much attention from the national media as his Democratic rival. The bad news? It’s overwhelmingly negative.

Just 14 percent of the stories about John McCain from the conventions through the final presidential debate were positive in tone, according to a study released today, while nearly 60 percent were negative—the least favorable coverage of any of the 4 candidates on the ticket.

The study, by The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, a non-partisan journalism watchdog organization, examined 2,412 stories from 43 newspapers and cable news shows in the six-week period beginning just after the conventions and ending with the final presidential debate.

“Much of the increased attention for McCain derived from actions by the senator himself, actions that, in the end, generated mostly negative assessments,” the study found. “In many ways, the arc of the media narrative during this phase of the 2008 general election might best be described as a drama in which John McCain acted and Barack Obama reacted.”

More here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14829.html

[The Magistrate]

1. When A Man Spreads Negative Energy, Sir, Report Of His Doings Will Hold A Negative Tone

"This election os a referendum on reality."

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. How is Pol Pot's coverage?

[MNDemNY]

3. Everything he does is "negative" what is your point?

Most coverage of the stock market has been negative, of late. So?

[Cali_Democrat]

4. THIS is your first post on DU?

Welcome....:hi:

BTW, when someone is engaging in a NEGATIVE campaign, their coverage will be mostly NEGATIVE.

[MNDemNY]

5. Hello??? you there???

[Kind of Blue]

6. And surely Palin is not helping. n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

7. When your campaign is nearly 100% negative, you're going to get negative publicity!

[still_one]

8. Bullshit. It only went negative when mccain went negative, so my argument

is that this so-called negative coverage was due to the mccain camp itself creating it by their actions

When you have a campaign trying to divide people, calling the the Democrats socialists, terrorists, and unpatriotic, what do they expect?

[Bucky]

9. BREAKING NEWS: Study finds 100% of news coverage of Wall Street collapse negative

Those darn liberal socialist media "rats" are totally slanting this massive global financial melt down to make it look bad for Republicans just cause it happened to occur as a result of their policies!

Uh oh, more Breaking News: Study finds 100% of news coverage of fatal car wrecks give negative spin

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. You signed up today, to post this shit? Thanks for your concern, now

head on back over to "You Know Where"!:puke:

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Yeah, well, reality has a well known liberal bias.

Enjoy your stay.

[theothersnippywshrub]

12. No matter how much GOP Turd Polish you use, you just can't shine shit.