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The minutes spent by the broadcast media on issues coverage in 2008: 220; 2012: 114; 2016: 32 (2016 breakdown inside)

Posted by crash davis (aka crash davis) Nov 10 '16, 11:35

ABC: 8 minutes, all of which covered terrorism.

NBC: 8 minutes for terrorism, LBGT issues, and foreign policy.

CBS: 16 minutes for foreign policy, terrorism, immigration, policing, and the Environmental Protection Agency

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/26/media-spent-3-times-airtime-discussing-clintons-emails-policy-2016.html

https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/26/study-confirms-network-evening-newscasts-have-abandoned-policy-coverage-2016-campaign/214120 (mediamatters.org)

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ya can't sell ads with issues...nm - x Nov 10, 11:58 4
- Sure you can "After the break, Kim Kardashian reads Ted Cruz's latest proposal about entitlements" -- nm - crash davis Nov 10, 12:07 3
  - hmmm, i might watch that.....nm - x Nov 10, 12:22 1
    - I just might, to see how many multisyllabic words she stumbles on. -- nm - crash davis Nov 10, 12:26
  - "Right after this story about agricultural subsidies, the kitten and the goat who became best friends. You'll never believe what they did on Halloween -- nm - crash davis Nov 10, 12:11
Bush's one good point was on this. He told a story about doing a town hall meeting in NH talking about issues and having essentially no media - pmb Nov 10, 11:53
earlier there was a discussion parts of the media failing America, above was my contribution -- nm - crash davis Nov 10, 11:36
I was just about to guess that! -- nm - decline Nov 10, 11:36 1
- then you beat Loyola! -- nm - crash davis Nov 10, 11:37

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The minutes spent by the broadcast media on issues coverage in 2008: 220; 2012: 114; 2016: 32 (2016 breakdown inside)

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