The news media always picks someone to favor over others in elections (Fox normally goes with the Republican).
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Center for Media and Public Affairs. The center's study of 187 CBS, NBC and ABC evening news reports found that only 49 percent of all on-air evaluations of Dean in 2003 were positive. The other Democratic contenders collectively received 78 percent favorable coverage during the period.
In the week after the Iowa caucuses, the center found that only 39 percent of the coverage of Dean on network evening news programs was positive; in contrast, 86 percent of the coverage of North Carolina Sen. John Edwards was positive, as was 71 percent of the coverage of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the new front-runner.
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Published on Thursday, February 12, 2004 by the Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin)
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