2020 Election

Report Shows Cable Networks Cover Sanders, O’Rourke More Than Anyone Else

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Report Shows Cable Networks Cover Sanders, O’Rourke More Than Anyone Else
Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally to kick off his 2020 US presidential campaign, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on March 2, 2019. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images
Bowen Xiao
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A new report revealed that major cable networks cover and discuss Beto O’Rourke and socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) more than the other contenders—despite a crowded field of now more than a dozen 2020 candidates.
FiveThirtyEight, a Democratic-leaning polling site, tracked data from cable networks CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC to measure their mentions of Democrat candidates. Using the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive and the GDELT project’s Television Explorer, the pollsters analyzed how many times the networks mentioned a candidate in the days leading up to and after their campaign announcement.
Bowen Xiao
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Bowen Xiao was a New York-based reporter at The Epoch Times. He covers national security, human trafficking and U.S. politics.
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