Campaign Coverage Bias

Project for Excellence in Journalism study finds that in the media overall, 57% of stories about McCain are negative, compared to 29% for Obama.  In newspapers the split is 69%/28%; for NBC News it’s 54%/21%; MSNBC is 73%/14%; Fox News is 40%/40%.

A Center for Media and Public Affairs study finds basically the same thing: Obama gets twice as much positive coverage as McCain.