Report: Sanders received most favorable media coverage

[book_worm]

No surprise and congratulations to Hillary for not going negative:

A new study from the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government found that Sen. Bernie Sanders received the most “overwhelmingly positive” media coverage of any presidential candidate.

“The Democratic race in 2015 received less than half the coverage of the Republican race. Bernie Sanders’ campaign was largely ignored in the early months but, as it began to get coverage, it was overwhelmingly positive in tone. Sanders’ coverage in 2015 was the most favorable of any of the top candidates, Republican or Democratic. For her part, Hillary Clinton had by far the most negative coverage of any candidate. In 11 of the 12 months, her ‘bad news’ outpaced her ‘good news,’ usually by a wide margin, contributing to the increase in her unfavorable poll ratings in 2015.”

The study also confirmed “the me­dia’s ex­cess­ive and of­ten un­crit­ic­al cov­er­age of Don­ald Trump in the run-up to the primar­ies played a ma­jor role in his ex­plos­ive polit­ic­al rise.”

https://politicalwire.com/2016/06/15/sanders-received-most-favorable-media-coverage/

[book_worm]

1. And yet despite all the negative coverage of HRC she won fair and sqaure and

by a solid margin.

[Her Sister]

2. Annnnnnd the least negative coverage!

[tonyt53]

3. Mostly because nobody took him seriously. They could have torn him apart at any time

[BlueCaliDem]

4. No! No! NO! DWS is behind this piece of propaganda! I swear it!

This doesn't come as any surprise to us. But it's nice to be vindicated and, yes, I'm proud of Hillary for not taking the bait and going negative so they can go full-on in attack mode against her. It appears she's learned a lot from President Obama when it comes to that! And let's not forget that MSNBS was fully on board, with zero support among any talkinghead "gracing" their line-up - and that includes Rachel Maddow.

Clearly, they were hoping for a Sanders and Orangeglow matchup this summer, country be damned. They need those ratings! Who cares if either one of them would have harmed the country, our economy, the Democratic Party that President Obama worked so hard and so tirelessly to build up! It's all about ratings and $$ from advertisers!

Pravda (the Pravda between 1912 and 1990) ain't got nothin' on U.$. M$M!

[yallerdawg]

6. You are so right!

And I'm glad we didn't fall for the relentless BS!

It was one of the most widespread, calculated character assassinations ever attempted - and promoted by a significant majority at DU!

But we all hung in there!!!

Ready for Hillary!

[Light63]

7. SHAME ON ALL MEDIA!!!

THAT INCLUDES MSNBC and CNN!

They thought they could control the outcome, but Hillary was, is, and will be too politically good and experienced for the M$M as well as the child-in-a-man-body Trump and the Opportunistic Independent Sanders to take her down.

[William769]

8. Everthing that was thrown at Hillary, she remained above the fray.

[forjusticethunders]

9. The process was rigged.

Against Hillary.

And she still won.

Hilarious.

[caquillo]

10. They don't call them 'Teflon Clintons' for nothing!

[DavidDvorkin]

11. I posted this article in GDP earlier this morning

And got the kind of response you would expect.

[eastwestdem]

12. No doubt about that. nt