Reference no: EM133152010

Do you agree or disagree with the article and why

Name - A Tale of Two Elections: CBS and Fox News' Portrayal of the 2020 Presidential Campaign

Author - Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press

Public Entity - Harvard Kennedy School: Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy 

The author speaks a lot about Trump, but also mentions Biden multiple times. I feel as if this author is trying to reach the democratic party. When he mentions Trump, he mentions how many times Trump has been covered in the media. 

"During the 2020 general election (defined as the period from the end of the primary election season to Election Day), Trump's coverage on Fox outpaced Joe Biden's by three-to-two (see figure 1).  On CBS, the ratio was two-to-one. And those were Biden's best numbers. Biden was nearly invisible in the news for long periods during the campaign's earlier stages. Over the course of the full 2020 campaign, Trump received four times as much coverage as Biden on CBS and three times as much on Fox."

I think that the article showed how the candidates were portrayed on different media outlets such as Fox News, CNN, and CBS. It showed how they were negatively impacted on different platforms. I believe this article is credible due to it being a study from Harvard. With the article being from Harvard, I believe they have to do multiple forms of research before publishing an article of any kind. I believe that they covered the 2020 election as fair as they could with the information provided.  

https://shorensteincenter.org/patterson-2020-election-coverage/