News Coverage of the 2016 General Election: How the Press Failed the Voters

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**"“Were the allegations surrounding Clinton of the same order of magnitude as those surrounding Trump?” asks Patterson. “It’s a question that political reporters made no serious effort to answer during the 2016 campaign. [...]

"The real bias of the press is not that it’s liberal. Its bias is a decided preference for the negative. As scholar Michael Robinson noted, the news media seem to have taken some motherly advice and turned it upside down. 'If you don’t have anything bad to say about someone, don’t say anything at all.'”"**

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Thu Dec 08 2016 11:41:52 GMT-0600 (CST)