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This library contains all data PEJ creates or collects about the news media. The selections below will appear as charts you can customize. Use the menus on the left to filter the data according to your interests.

  • Evidence for Bush Coasting on Family Ties

    Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 -- A Question of Character", Date Posted: July 27, 2000
    In the 2000 campaign then-Gov. George W. Bush’s “riding the ties to his family” was a frequent story theme, but the stories most often cited no evidence for it.

  • Evidence for Gore and Scandal

    Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 -- A Question of Character", Date Posted: July 27, 2000
    The evidence cited for then-Vice President Al Gore being “scandal tainted” in the 2000 campaign most often came from the public record, things like public statements.

  • Evidence for Gore as a Liar

    Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 -- A Question of Character", Date Posted: July 27, 2000
    The evidence cited for then-Vice President Al Gore being a “liar” in the 2000 campaign most often came from the public record, things like public statements.

  • Evidence for Gore's Competence

    Source: PEJ: "A Question of Character: How the media have handled the issue and how the public has reacted ", Date Posted: July 27, 2000
    In the 2000 campaign then-Vice President Al Gore’s competence was a frequent story theme, but the stories most often cited no evidence for it.

  • Evidence Used by Various Sources

    Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 -- A Question of Character", Date Posted: July 27, 2000
    In the 2000 campaign the biggest source of “evidence” cited for or against a candidate was the public record, things like public statements.

  • Gore Character Themes

    Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 -- A Question of Character", Date Posted: July 27, 2000
    The most common story theme for then-Vice President Al Gore’s campaign in 2000 dealt with Gore being “scandal-tainted” and Gore being a “liar.”

  • Sourcing of Assertions about Bush's Intellect

    Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 -- A Question of Character", Date Posted: July 27, 2000
    Journalists themselves were most often the source of assertions about then Gov. George W. Bush and on every other theme as well.

  • Timing of Bush and Gore Character Themes

    Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 -- A Question of Character", Date Posted: July 27, 2000
    As campaign 2000 went on, the most popular story theme for then Gov. George W. Bush went from his “coasting on his family ties” to his being “unintelligent.”

  • Framing of Lead Stories

    Source: PEJ, "ePolitics 2000", Date Posted: April 10, 2000
    MSNBC led all the studied on-line sites in links to unfiltered information, such as the verbatim text of a candidate's speech or an official campaign policy statement.

  • In the Public Interest?: Story Frames Used in Early Campaign Coverage

    Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 - In the Public Interest?", Date Posted: April 10, 2000
    In the first months of the 2000 presidential campaign straight news stories were the most common type of election story citizens found in the news media.
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