News media loves Perry, hates Obama

Pew is out today with a new report on the tone of media coverage of all the current candidates. It’s interesting first because it adds data to my assertion that Rick Perry enjoyed a good amount of positive coverage, explaining his sudden rise in the polls early on in his race. Also worth mentioning:

One man running for president has suffered the most unrelentingly negative treatment of all, the study found: Barack Obama. Though covered largely as president rather than a candidate, negative assessments of Obama have outweighed positive by a ratio of almost 4-1. Those assessments of the president have also been substantially more negative than positive every one of the 23 weeks studied. And in no week during these five months was more than 10% of the coverage about the president positive in tone.

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