Press release from Factiva

[AnAmerican]

"Here is how the candidates fared from a media perspective
during the week ending January 18, 2004:

Howard Dean - 1726 media mentions
Dick Gephardt - 993 media mentions
John Kerry - 864 media mentions
Wesley Clark - 854 media mentions
John Edwards - 836 media mentions
Joe Lieberman - 556 media mentions
Dennis Kucinich - 461 media mentions
Al Sharpton - 447 media mentions"

Full release at http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040119005308&newsLang=en


Gotta love media impartiality huh??

[lovedems]

1. Isn't there an "equal time" law now? They sure don't seem to care!

Our local television station refused to air SNL the night Sharpton was the host because "they feared it would violate the equal time law". That is censorship at it's finest!

[Nadienne]

6. The difference between entertainment

and news:

You gotta make news to be in the news. That's the loophole. Of course, a lot of people who rely on the news think that the candidates who aren't in the news as much aren't making news.

And that's not true.

I spit on the media.

I support Kucinich.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Over double the exposure for Dean.

Imagine that! :eyes: And we wonder why he leads in the polls? If Clark had as much exposure, he would be leading by an even larger # in the polls than Dean is because he's so much more electable. Thanks for the post. It explains a lot.

Go, Wes!

[BootinUp]

3. sounds about right to me n/t

[newsguyatl]

4. does it report

that more than HALF of those dean "media mentions" were negative?

[Walt Starr]

5. These numbers leave something out

How much of the exposure was positive, negative, or neutral?

The numbers may start looking a lot different if you factor that in.



"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics."

Mark Twain

[stickdog]

7. Dean 1726 mentions & 1723 slams! (mt)