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Content-coded CBC evening newscasts are used to examine reports on the eight candidates for Liberal Party Leader in the weeks before the party's 2006 convention. In a sharp contrast news reports on U.S. presidential nominations, "The National" provided coverage balanced between the horse race and more substantive matters, including policy discussions and a candidate's personality and leadership qualities. But like US nomination coverage, "The National" largely ignored trailing candidates, focusing nearly all of its attention on the likely and plausible nominees. In terms of tone, "The National" provided "compensatory coverage," where frontrunners were more treated more negatively than the candidates further back in the field.

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