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The Tilt Against Dole
Section: CURRENT ISSUES / MEDIA IN REVIEW
Author: Alicia C. Shepard
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 2/1/1997
Size: 2,126 Words, 13,408 Characters

Typically, a president receives good coverage during his presidency but gets much more negative press during his reelection bid. Former Presidents George Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter can all attest to that. Bush, in particular, got rivers of negative ink when he ran against Bill Clinton in 1992.

But President Clinton's media coverage this year surprised scholars of the presidency, says a report released in December by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA), a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization.

"This year [1996] ... Bill Clinton has enjoyed the best press of his presidency," said the report, which studied the network evening news shows from Labor Day to Election Day.

That wasn't the case during the first three years of Clinton's presidency, in which he w...


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...ic fired up about the general election, interestingly a recent report indicates the voters blame themselves--not the media--for the lack of interest. A survey taken by the Media Studies Center in New York City, which sampled 2,000 people, asked voters this fall: If you can't make informed choices about a candidate, whom do you blame? Seventy-eight percent of the respondents blamed themselves.



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