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News Coverage of the 2016 General Election: How the Press Failed the Voters

Thomas E. Patterson’s December 2016 Shorenstein Center report, produced in conjunction with Media Tenor.

2016

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The report examines the tone and focus of the 2016 general-election news. It distinguishes campaign coverage as a whole from the general-election period and separates horse-race reporting from substantive candidate evaluation. The original PDF includes the methodology and its Creative Commons licence.

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