Cenk Uygur
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Study: Constant Media Fawning Over Trump Propped Up His Campaign
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June 18, 2016
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10:35Now PlayingA new Harvard study is breaking down many of the different ways the media failed in their coverage of the presidential candidates throughout the primaries. John Iadarola (ThinkTank), Jayar Jackson, and Elliot Hill (The Lip TV), hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A recently released Harvard study is accusing major print and broadcast media of improperly influencing the presidential primaries in the months leading up to the first contests.
Thomas Patterson, Harvard’s Bradley Professor of Government and the Press, in conjunction with the Shorenstein Center on Media, Public Policy, and Politics, conducted an analysis of eight different cable networks and newspapers and found that media companies devoted an unprecedented amount of coverage to Donald Trump from the start of his campaign, effectively shutting out over a dozen of his competitors. The Shorenstein analysis also learned that the Republican candidates got roughly twice as much media coverage as the Democratic candidates.
Furthermore, the majority of the coverage for Trump was either positive or neutral despite his frequently bigoted and inflammatory statements.”*
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Hosts: John Iadarola, Jayar Jackson, Elliot Hill
Cast: John Iadarola, Jayar Jackson, Elliot Hill
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