Comparative Candidate Coverage 2016

[patient1]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/6/gary-johnson-receives-little-coverage-from-news-ne/


"startling new analysis of major network news coverage conducted by the Media Research Center reveals all. Rich Noyes, research director for the conservative press watchdog, examined 1,713 campaign stories that appeared on ABC, CBS and NBC from Jan. 1 all the way through the end of August. Here’s what Mr. Noyes and his team of researchers found.

GOP nominee Donald Trump got 1,773 minutes of coverage, Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton got 1,020 minutes. And Mr. Johnson?

“Thus far in 2016, Johnson has received a mere 11 seconds of evening news coverage — just a single sentence on the NBC Nightly News as he was formally nominated back in May,” says Mr. Noyes. “That means Clinton has received more than 5,000 times more coverage than Johnson, while Donald Trump garnered nearly 10,000 times more evening news airtime than his Libertarian challenger.”

The broadcast status of other third party hopefuls were also examined by the researchers. They found that conservative independent candidate Evan McMullin got 33 seconds, Green Party nominee Jill Stein three seconds. Yes, three seconds. Constitution Party candidate Darrell Castle got no seconds — as in zero coverage on the networks."

 

[Sean Renaud]

In fairness to the news industry Hillary has decided that her best strategy is to sit down, shut up and let Trump fuck himself. And she's not wrong. That's exactly what you do when you've got something of a lead. If/when things tighten she'll come out of her shell. Trump on the other hand has gotten this far by saying the most extreme stuff he can manage.

Oh and Johnson isn't a candidate. I mean I'm shocked he only got 11 seconds, I could have assumed over the year just repeating his name would have added up to a few minutes but still.

 

[patient1]

In fairness to the news industry Hillary has decided that her best strategy is to sit down, shut up and let Trump fuck himself. And she's not wrong. That's exactly what you do when you've got something of a lead. If/when things tighten she'll come out of her shell. Trump on the other hand has gotten this far by saying the most extreme stuff he can manage.

Oh and Johnson isn't a candidate. I mean I'm shocked he only got 11 seconds, I could have assumed over the year just repeating his name would have added up to a few minutes but still.

Before last night, NBC nightly news hadn't even done that. There have been plenty of polls where they had the opportunity to mention his name because he was in double digits, but they didn't.