Letting the Second Debate Marinate
I watched the second Presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney from the comfort of my home computer. I decided to spend it at Yahoo News’s Destination 2012. They…
Candidate VoiceShare in Print Coverage Slanted Toward Romney
In print coverage of the election, a significant portion of the attributed statements are from the two candidates. Mitt Romney has had significantly higher VoiceShare among major print outlets’ election…
Print Coverage Gains Steam From Conventions
After months of being dominated by TV media, the election has gotten increasing coverage from print media since the conventions. For the majority of the summer, television news and talk…
MSNBC and FOX Amp Up Negative Coverage on Foreign Policy
As Foreign Policy reached the spotlight, two TV shows covered it with significant negative coverage toward opposite candidates. Negative coverage on Foreign Policy for these shows has been almost double…
Summer Spotlight: NPR Morning Edition
While the 4th Estate Project works on processing the coverage from the RNC and DNC, we are releasing short posts about the summer election coverage of specific media. Similar to…
Summer Spotlight: Miami Herald
While the 4thEstate is working to catch up on processing the coverage from the RNC and DNC, we are releasing short posts about election coverage of the summer. In their…
Summer Spotlight: Washington Post
While the 4thEstate is working to catch up on processing the coverage from the RNC and DNC, we are releasing short posts from election coverage of the summer. Over the…
Men are Telling the Stories of Election 2012
Male journalists have been the primary ‘storytellers’ of this year’s election news since January. During the GOP Primaries and General Election, men have had their stories published in the traditional…
Obama Cannot Count on Hometown Support
Since May, election coverage in the Chicago Tribune has been very negative to Obama. Romney and Ryan piled on the negative coverage last week, but negativity toward Obama has been…
Spotlight: San Francisco Chronicle
Today’s Sunday spotlight focuses on the patterns of the coverage of the San Francisco Chronicle during the general election. For the purpose of all the charts in this post, we…








