Objective Journalism in an Objectively Uneven ContestWhat if one of the candidates is Hitler? Broadcast news “totally ignored the comments,” Media Matters pointed out. The study found that 62% of the coverage of Clinton and 56% of the coverage of Trump was negative in tone. Now, reporters often simply say that a statement isn’t true. But a study of people who had viewed the tweets showed that 95 percent discovered them through media coverage, not Twitter.

Source: New York Times November 13, 2023 18:03 UTC