A new study finds that media coverage of the 2024 U.S. presidential race focused far more on political spectacle, strategy, and candidate controversies than on substantive policy debates, potentially leaving voters less informed about key issues.
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Study finds media coverage of the 2024 presidential race favored political spectacle over substantive policy debates
During the chaotic 2024 presidential election, major U.S. newspapers focused heavily on political strategy and legal battles rather than substantive policy. A recent study indicates that media coverage remained largely negative, except for a brief bump for…
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In the lead-up to the 2024 US election, horse race coverage of the election overwhelmingly dominated all news outlets, even receiving more attention than all policy issues combined. In terms of policy, the topic covered most intensely by media was immigration.
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Science Advances
The Media Bias Detector: A framework for annotating and analyzing the news
News organizations introduce bias into their coverage via the choices they make about which topics to cover (or ignore) and how to frame the issues they do decide to cover. Here, we introduce the Media Bias Detector, a scalable computational framework ...