{"id":6940,"date":"2009-02-25T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T18:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6940"},"modified":"2009-02-25T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T18:01:17","slug":"study-network-bias-journalist-self-censorship-favors-gop-during-election-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6940","title":{"rendered":"Study: Network Bias, Journalist Self-Censorship Favors GOP During Election Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/New_book_No_liberal_media_bias_0224.html\">Sounds about right to us&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Journalists, so concerned with being accused of having a liberal agenda, will at times overreact by self-censoring themselves, resulting in more favorable coverage of Republicans, a new analysis of television coverage finds.<\/p>\n<p>A book by two Indiana University professors details their study of the three broadcast networks&#8217; &#8212; ABC, CBS and NBC &#8212; presidential campaign coverage from 1992 to 2004. According to the analysis, the coverage favored Republican candidates in each election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t think this is journalists conspiring to favor Republicans. We think they&#8217;re just so beat up and tired of being accused of a liberal bias that they unknowingly give Republicans the benefit in coverage,&#8221; said Maria Elizabeth Grabe, an associate professor at IU, who along with Associate Professor Erik Bucy, wrote <i>Image Bite Politics: News and the Visual Framing of Elections<\/i>.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Grabe and Bucy found the volume of news coverage focusing exclusively on each party &#8212; one measure of media bias &#8212; favored Republicans. Their research found there were more single-party stories about Republicans overall and in each election year except 1992,&#8221; reads the release.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe authors found that Republicans were more likely to get the last word in every presidential election studied but the 2004 election.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds about right to us&#8230; Journalists, so concerned with being accused of having a liberal agenda, will at times overreact by self-censoring themselves, resulting in more favorable coverage of Republicans, a new analysis of television coverage finds. A book by two Indiana University professors details their study of the three broadcast networks&#8217; &#8212; ABC, CBS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mainstream-corporate-media","category-mainstream-media-failure"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6940"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}