"A new study of campaign reporting concludes that Senator
John F. Kerry, buoyed by his performances in the presidential
debates, was covered by the media far more favorably than
President Bush in recent weeks.
The survey released yesterday by the Washington-based Project
for Excellence in Journalism found that 59
percent of the stories that were primarily about Bush
from Oct. 1-14 were negative in tone,
compared to only 25 percent of the stories
about Kerry. And while 34 percent of the Kerry
coverage was favorable, a mere 14 percent of the president's
coverage put him in a positive light. The survey examined 817
stories from the Washington Post, the New York Times,
the Columbus Dispatch, and the Miami Herald; the
evening and morning news programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC; PBS's
nightly newscast, CNN's NewsNight With Aaron Brown; and
the Fox News Channel's Special Report With Brit Hume.
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