The Invisible Primary -- Invisible No Longer; A First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign
Project for Excellence in Journalism / Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Available online. Printed copy to be added to the collection.
"In the early months of the 2008 presidential campaign, the media had already winnowed the race to mostly five candidates and offered Americans relatively little information about their records or what they would do if elected, according to a comprehensive new study of the election coverage across the media. The press also gave some candidates measurably more favorable coverage than others... All of these findings seem to be at sharp variance with what the public says it wants from campaign reporting."
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