FNC’s coverage of the war in Iraq has been “distinctly more positive than negative,” the PEJ study finds. “Fully 38% of Fox segments were overwhelmingly positive in tone, more than double the 14% of segments that were negative. Still, stories were as likely to be neutral as positive (39%) and another 9% were multi-subject stories for which tone did not apply. On CNN, in contrast, 41% of stories were neutral in tone on the 20 days studied, and positive and negative stories were almost equally likely — 20% positive, 23% negative. Some 15% were multi-faceted and not coded for tone.”
> But: While FNC was more positive about the war, no discernable tone was detected in FNC’s coverage of the presidential election.
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