FoxNews : Fair and Balanced

FoxNews : Fair and Balanced

C’est en tout cas ce qu’il ressort d’une étude de Mason University qui a examiné tous les reportages sur les élections des journaux du soir de CBS, NBC, ABC et FoxNews entre le 1er octobre et le 15 décembre 2007. L’étude a donc examine 441 reportages représentant plus de 15 heures de diffusion. Et FoxNews arrive a un étonnant 49% de reportage positifs contre 51 % de negatifs pour les candidats républicains, et 51% de reportages positifs contre 49% pour les candidats démocrates.

L’étude révele aussi que Hillary a reçu le plus grand nombres de reportages ( 40% de l’ensemble de tous les candidats réunis) mais majoritairement en négatifs ( 58% des cas), Obama lui a eu droit a 61% de reportages positifs.

TV election news has been hardest on Hillary Clinton this fall, while Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee have been the biggest media favorites, according to a new study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) at George Mason University. The study also found that FoxNewsChannel’s evening news show provided more balanced coverage than its counterparts on the broadcast networks.

On-air evaluations of Hillary Clinton were nearly 3 to 2 negative (42% positive vs. 58% negative comments), while evaluations of her closest competitor Barack Obama was better than 3 to 2 positive (61% positive vs. 39% negative). John Edwards attracted much less coverage, but his evaluations were 2 to 1 positive (67% positive vs. 33% negative). Sen. Clinton was evaluated more often than all her Democratic opponents combined.

Among Republicans, Mike Huckabee fared best with evenly balanced coverage – 50% positive and 50% negative evaluations by reporters and sources. Fred Thompson came next with 44% positive comments, followed by Mitt Romney with 40% positive, Rudy Giuliani with 39% positive, and John McCain with 33% positive.

Fox News Channel’s coverage was more balanced toward both parties than the broadcast networks were. On FOX, evaluations of all Democratic candidates combined were split almost evenly – 51% positive vs. 49% negative, as were all evaluations of GOP candidates – 49% positive vs. 51% negative, producing a perfectly balanced 50-50 split for all candidates of both parties.

On the three broadcast networks, opinion on Democratic candidates split 47% positive vs. 53% negative, while evaluations of Republicans were more negative – 40% positive vs. 60% negative. For both parties combined, network evaluations were almost 3 to 2 negative in tone, i.e. 41% positive vs. 59% negative.

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