Cable News Is Covering Biden As Much As Every Other Democratic Candidate Combined

[mucifer]

In the first full week of his 2020 campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden continued to dominate cable news coverage on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. According to data from the TV News Archive, which chops up TV news into 15-second clips that we access using the GDELT Project’s Television API,1 Biden was mentioned in more clips that any other candidate across the three networks last week, and he was mentioned almost four times as often as Sen. Bernie Sanders, who had been getting the most coverage of any 2020 candidate before Biden joined the race. For the second consecutive week, Biden, who has also been well ahead in polling and endorsements, was mentioned in about as many clips as all the other candidates combined.

Most candidates get a bump in media coverage around the time they announce that they’re running, but for some candidates — like former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who was mentioned in about 870 clips in the week after he declared his candidacy but has recently been getting about a quarter of that level of coverage — that bump can quickly fade. For others, like Sanders, it can be the start of more sustained run of higher media attention. We’re already seeing less cable news coverage of Biden this week compared to the week that he announced, but he started at such a high peak that even a 34 percent drop has still left him on top.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/cable-news-is-covering-biden-as-much-as-every-other-democratic-candidate-combined/

The article has some good graphs and stuff.

[Crazyleftie]

1. As in every presidential election

the media anoints both the primary candidate and the party candidate by the amount of their coverage. Prime examples:
--the media presumed that Hillary would be the democratic candidate years before the election
--Trump's inane antics dominated the media coverage during the last election

Obama, Clinton1 and Bush received the same treatment.

[Cha]

16. The M$M did Not "anoint"

Hillary.. nor President Obama.

[beachbum bob]

2. why wouldn't they? He is the front runner....

politics has nothing to do with fairness at all, never has, never will

[Crazyleftie]

11. Which came first

the chicken or the egg?

[beachbum bob]

12. Bidens name recognition inherently gives the advantage..

Just the way it is

[CentralMass]

3. I'm shocked.

[NurseJackie]

5. I'm delighted.

[VarryOn]

4. We need the debates....

We need some distinctions made amongst the candidates and a few to give up. Then, we can start to coalesce around a handful and get a good race going. I know many want everyone to play nice, but we need to see who's tough.

[rainin]

6. He's a corporate friendly candidate. Why wouldn't they?

On edit: I will enthusiastically support him in the general election, even if he won't get my vote in the primary.

[mucifer]

7. Yeah I agree with you 100%

[JI7]

8. then Sanders must be also since the article mentions how Sanders was getting the most Coverage

before Biden entered the race.

so Sanders is more corporate friendly than all the others who had announced before Biden.

[rainin]

9. I'm starting to suspect that Sanders is the foil.

He's the candidate who is promoted to divide the democratic party.

Note: I will vote for Sanders if he is our nominee.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

10. Yes, makes sense... but, Bernie being the least corporate friendly would also make sense.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[TwilightZone]

13. He's the most-recent major candidate to enter the race, so it's not surprising.

Many of the others also entered the race at roughly the same time as other candidates, so the coverage at that time was split.

[LongtimeAZDem]

14. Probably because his poll numbers are as high as every other candidate combined

[msongs]

15. unlike some candidates he has a life long record of accomplishments, like em or not nt