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Factors capture differences between conservatives’ and liberals’ perceptions of science
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Factors capture differences between conservatives’ and liberals’ perceptions of science
The new study, published in the Journal Political Communication, focuses on how media coverage affected United States Senate campaigns over five election cycles between 2008 and 2016. It comes as the high-stakes runoff election in Georgia tips the balance of power in the US for the next four years. Researchers looked at print media coverage of Senate candidates and its relationship with candidates’ electoral success, focusing on the type of framing that was prevalent. Using the Lexis-Nexis archive, they looked at coverage in major US newspapers, such as the New York Times and Chicago Tri...