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issue coverage by the media  

Definition

  • THE PRESS OFTEN spends more time covering the horse race aspects of a campaign than the issues. The results of several content analyses of actual coverage show substantial variation in the amount of issue coverage depending on how issues were defined, during what time frame of the election the sample of press coverage was taken, the medium (newspaper vs. [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior; Issue Coverage by the Media]

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