The Nightly News Nightmare: Network Television's Coverage of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1988-2000

From: Journalism History | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Benjamin, Louise | Copyright information

Farnsworth, Stephen J., and Robert S. Lichter. The Nightly News Nightmare: Network Television's Coverage of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1988-2000. Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. 228 pp. $22.95.

Conducted by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA), this book analyzes the last four presidential elections through careful examination of 5,847 network news campaign stories for those elections. This is part of a total CMPA content analysis of more than 22,000 campaign item...