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The Influence of Polls on Television News Coverage of Presidential Campaigns
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Artikel-Nr:
9781498542333
Veröffentl:
2018
Seiten:
176
Autor:
Vincent M. Fitzgerald
Serie:
Lexington Studies in Political Communication
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book is a comprehensive content analysis of the use of polls by the three major television network newscasts during presidential general election campaigns from 1968 to 2016. It documents the dramatic increase of polls and the decline in coverage of substantive issues and the candidates’ policy positions over that time.
Since the election of Richard Nixon in 1968 to Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, both presidential campaigns and television news have undergone significant changes, perhaps most noticeably in the use of public opinion polls in campaign reporting by the national evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC. The Influence of Polls on Television News Coverage of Presidential Campaigns explores how during the past 50 years the three networks have quadrupled their use of polls during general election campaigns while the amount of time spent covering the actual issues facing the nation has dwindled. The increasing focus on polls over the years by television news has resulted in an overall diminished quality of journalism which is relying more and more on sensationalism and theatrics. The competition between the candidates has become a central focus of reporting, which has led to presidential campaigns being covered like sporting events. Major party candidates are portrayed increasingly less like potential leaders of the free world and more like athletes who are winning or losing a ballgame. The problem is not exit polls prematurely projecting a winner several hours before voting ends, but pre-election polls which do the same thing weeks before Election Day. Recommended for scholars interested in communication, political science, history, and sociology.
Acknowledgements
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
1Polls, Campaigns, and Television
2The Rise of Polls
3Campaigns as Sport
4Being Used by the Polls
5 Polls, Issues, and News Coverage
6Driving the Campaign Coverage
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
1Polls, Campaigns, and Television
2The Rise of Polls
3Campaigns as Sport
4Being Used by the Polls
5 Polls, Issues, and News Coverage
6Driving the Campaign Coverage
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author