PEJ: Iraq War: Networks Negative, FNC Positive, CNN & MSNBC Evenhanded

The Pew study of Iraq war news coverage “fails to support a conclusion that events were portrayed either negatively or positively most of the time,” the AP’s David Bauder says. “The three network evening newscasts tended to be more negative than positive, while the opposite was true of morning shows, the study said. Fox News Channel was twice as likely to be positive than negative, unlike the more evenhanded CNN and MSNBC, the study said.”