Partisan and Structural Balance of Election Stories on the 1998 Governor's Race in Michigan

Fico, Frederick; Cote, William E.

doi:10.1207/s15327825mcs0502_4

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“…Fico and Cote in newspaper studies of gubernatorial and presidential elections, for instance, found one-sided stories were typical, or, two-sided stories, when found, gave much more space and prominence to just one of the candidates. 12 Carter, Fico, and McCabe found a similar pattern when adapting these measures to local television election coverage of a governor's race.I3 However, Fico and Freedman, and Fico and Cote in newspaper studies, and Fico, Zeldes, and Diddi in a broadcast study found imbalance related more to incumbency than to the political party of the candidates. "…”

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Partisan and Structural Balance in Newspaper Coverage of U.S. Senate Races in 2004 with Female Nominees

Fico¹,

Freedman²,

Love³

2006

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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Nine newspapers covering U.S. Senate races in 2004 were mostly evenhanded in the space and prominence given candidates. Reporter gender, newsroom diversity, and newspaper size were associated with partisan imbalance giving more favorable treatment to Democrats. The partisanship of a story's lead predicted the story's structural imbalance, regardless of the party the imbalance favored. However, story partisan and structural imbalances were negligibly related, suggesting that news processing conventions rather than journalistic partisanship produced the imbalance.

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“…. 12 The Partisan and Structural Imbalance indices indicated substantially even-handed coverage of the elections (see Table 1). Overall, imbalance favored the Republicans in 47% of the stories and Democrats in 32%.…”

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confidence: 99%

Partisan and Structural Balance in Newspaper Coverage of U.S. Senate Races in 2004 with Female Nominees

Fico¹,

Freedman²,

Love³

2006

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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“…Looking at the issue in another way, in a number of studies, Fico and colleagues examined balance in certain presidential, gubernatorial, and senatorial races (e.g., Fico & Cote, 1999, 2002; Fico et al, 2006). They developed measures of structural and partisan bias.…”

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confidence: 99%

Balance and Bias in Network Evening News Coverage of Presidential State of the Union Addresses

Schaefer

Fordan

2014

Electronic News

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While balance and fairness are important journalistic norms worthy of research, many previous studies have only examined them in the electoral context. A content analysis of news coverage of State of Union Messages from 1982-2013 on ABC, CBS, and NBC, tests for balance in tone as well as sourcing between the President's side and the partisan opposition. It also addresses partisan or ideological biases. Despite the customary opposition response, coverage showed sourcing imbalances favoring the President the vast majority of time on all networks. Though the overall tone was neutral, non-partisan and media sources were decidedly negative. Democratic presidents received more favorable coverage than Republicans, though Republican presidents were somewhat more likely to receive airtime advantage. ABC also appeared more balanced than the other two. Journalists may be balancing the presidency's institutional bias with critical outside voices, and tempering a Democratic tonal bias with greater use of Republican sound bites.

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“…2 One result is that the press helps to set agendas during campaigns, influencing the candidates, their partisans and the electorate. 3 Squire and Fastnow 4 found in 1994 that newspapers were the major source of the public's information about state politics, a topic that receives little television news time. Although the years since their study have been marked by declining newspaper circulation coupled with growing reliance on the Internet and a plethora of cable and satellite broadcast outlets as alternative sources of political information, newspapers still provide the general public with extensive, independent information about state politics.…”

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Little Newspaper Coverage for Lt. Governor Candidates

Freedman¹,

Thai

2006

Newspaper Research Journal

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Partisan and Structural Balance of Election Stories on the 1998 Governor's Race in Michigan

Cited by 10 publications

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Partisan and Structural Balance in Newspaper Coverage of U.S. Senate Races in 2004 with Female Nominees

Partisan and Structural Balance in Newspaper Coverage of U.S. Senate Races in 2004 with Female Nominees

Balance and Bias in Network Evening News Coverage of Presidential State of the Union Addresses

Little Newspaper Coverage for Lt. Governor Candidates

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