A new study from the Shorenstein Center finds there was obvious ‘journalistic bias’ in the over-coverage of the Trump campaign

You might have heard: Trump has dominated coverage of the presidential election:In a given week, Trump’s name appeared in homepage headlines 1,341 times, while Clinton appeared 361 times

But did you know: According to a new study from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, there was clear “journalistic bias” in news organizations’ over-coverage of Donald Trump’s campaign, focusing on “the horse race over the issues.” The report reads: “Although Trump no longer had active opposition, he received more news coverage in the last month than did either Clinton or Sanders, a development that has no possible explanation other than journalistic bias. Reporters are attracted to the new, the unusual, the sensational, the outrageous — the type of story material that can catch and hold an audience’s attention. Trump fit that interest as has no other candidate in recent memory.”

+ Some numbers from the report: The Republican race received 63 percent of coverage while the Democratic race received 37 percent, and Trump received almost twice as much coverage as Jeb Bush, the next-highest ranking GOP candidate in terms of coverage (FiveThirtyEight)

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