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Words that matter : how the news and social media shaped the 2016 presidential campaign / Leticia Bode [and seven others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bode, Leticia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalism--Political aspects--United States.
- Journalism.
- Political campaigns--Press coverage--United States.
- Political campaigns.
- Presidents--United States--Election--2016.
- Presidents.
- Press and politics--United States.
- Press and politics.
- Social media--Political aspects--United States.
- Social media.
- Journalism--Political aspects.
- Presidents--Election.
- Social media--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2020.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, [2020]
- Summary:
- "The 2016 presidential election campaign might have seemed to be all about one man. He certainly did everything possible to reinforce that impression. But to an unprecedented degree the campaign also was about the news media and its relationships with the man who won and the woman he defeated. The authors assess how the news media covered the extraordinary 2016 election and, more important, what information-true, false, or somewhere in between-actually helped voters make up their minds. Using journalists' real-time tweets and published news coverage of campaign events, along with Gallup polling data measuring how voters perceived that reporting, the book traces the flow of information from candidates and their campaigns to journalists and to the public. The evidence uncovered shows how Donald Trump's victory, and Hillary Clinton's loss, resulted in large part from how the news media responded to these two unique candidates. Coverage of Trump was scattered among many different issues, and while many of those issues were negative, no single negative narrative came to dominate the coverage of the man who would be elected the 45th president of the United States. Clinton, by contrast, faced an almost unrelenting news media focus on one negative issue-her alleged misuse of e-mails-that captured public attention in a way that the more numerous questions about Trump did not. Some news media coverage of the campaign was insightful to voters who really wanted serious information to help them make the most important decision a democracy presents. But this book also demonstrates how the modern media environment can exacerbate the kind of pack journalism that leads some issues to dominate the news while others of equal or greater importance get almost no attention, making it hard for voters to make informed choices"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Changed Information Environment of Presidential Campaigns
- What Might Have Made News: Big Issues, Historic Candidates, and Hillary Clinton's Strange Email Scandal
- What the Media Covered, Journalists Tweeted, and the Public Heard about the Candidates
- The August 2015 Republican Debate: A Study of Information Flow in the 2015-2016 Republican Nomination Contest
- The Language and Tone of the 2016 Campaign
- The Things People Heard about Trump and Clinton
- Public Attention to Events in the 2016 Election
- What Mattered?
- Fake News Production and Consumption
- Conclusions: Determining What (Words) Mattered
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 0-8157-5238-5
- 0-8157-3192-2
- OCLC:
- 1151408105
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