Not exact matches
This special blog series, USA Decides 2016, focuses on the intersection
between election coverage and political science, bringing together insight from our academics and students on an
election posing a range of contested questions.
One compelling show was recorded the morning after the contested presidential
election of 2000
between Al Gore and George Bush, when the governor told Chartock he had fallen asleep in his chair watching news
coverage at 3 a.m.
The amount and content of media
coverage of student test scores differed substantially
between 2000 and the latter two
election years.
Industry observers speculate that current events (the
election cycle, terrorist attacks) may have squeezed out book
coverage, but also that the division of sales
between print and digital formats may be a factor.
In history, a secondary source like a newspaper account of an
election result can become a primary source, if the question is «what sort of
coverage was given to
elections back in...» The differences
between legal and historical criteria for evidence and related issues is treated in excellent detail in a work I'm constantly recommending to Slawyers: Duranti's Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science, and in addition Heather MacNeil's Trusting Records: Legal Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives is fundamental.