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CBS, The New York Times and reconstructed political reality

1988; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 53; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10417948809372719

2469-9640

Stephen A. Smith, Cherri D. Roden,

Social Media and Politics

Abstract The news and editorial positions of CBS Evening News and The New York Times are frequently attacked by the Radical Right as having a consistently liberal bias in the presentation of public affairs information. This study examined the coverage of the 1984 national election in the local newscasts of a CBS affiliate owned by the New York Times Company and discovered a bias in both time of coverage and direction of favorability toward the Reagan‐Bush campaign—data contradicting other recent studies of network coverage of the campaign.