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October 5, 2016

Voices of the Voters, Not the Polls

On Sept. 27 CBS Evening News dedicated five whole minutes to the “Voices of Voters.” The ratio of Trump to Clinton voters was noticeably unbalanced. CBS correspondents went to debate-watch parties in three different cities. In Los Angeles, all attendees were Latino and none supported Donald Trump. CBS...

CBS / Clinton / Trump / Uncategorized

October 5, 2016

CBS Voter Panels: What’s Their Purpose?

The September 26 presidential debate arrived and finished with a bang. A record number of roughly 80 million tuned in. The next day the CBS Evening News incorporated and intriguing component: groups of voters. CBS devoted nearly half of its political coverage to the three groups of voters...

ABC / CBS / NBC

October 4, 2016

Minor Party Candidates, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, Left Out of ABC Broadcast

On Sept. 16, voters learned Gary Johnson and Jill Stein did not qualify for the Sept. 26 debate. CBS and NBC reported the news in fewer than 20 seconds. Scott Pelley for CBS: “None of the minor party candidates made the cut for the first debate....

CBS / Clinton / NBC / Trump

October 4, 2016

Networks Divided on How to Fact Check

The Sept. 26 presidential debate demanded fact checking. It was unclear what the next day’s broadcasts would do. NBC responded with fifty-five seconds of fact checking inside another story. CBS had a whole story devoted to it. ABC avoided fact checking altogether. NBC’s Peter Alexander pointed...

Blog Post / CBS / Clinton / Trump

September 21, 2016

Are the Issues Getting Lost?

“Now let’s clear the smoke,” said CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley. What he really meant was, let’s take a break from the attacks bouncing between campaigns, and let’s talk issues. Pelley used this line to lead into a section of CBS’s newscast that stood out...

ABC / Blog Post / CBS / NBC

September 21, 2016

To Cover, or not to Cover: The Johnson Campaign Question

On Sept. 8, Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” talk show and left many viewers scratching their heads. When asked what he planned to do about Syria’s Aleppo, Johnson blanked and asked “what is Aleppo?” ABC, CBS and NBC ran with...

Blog Post / CBS / Clinton / Graphics

September 13, 2016

Graphics and the Media’s Mindfulness

On Sept. 1, CBS ran the following graphics to go along with its coverage of the FBI’s released documents from the Hillary Clinton email investigation: They also incorporated Donald Trump’s reaction to the situation using the same graphic layout: The network then revealed the following poll, which...

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