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In his first months in office, the budget dominated press coverage of Bill Clinton's presidency.

The First 100 Days: How Bush Versus Clinton Fared in the Press

Media assessments of Bush's first two months in office were mostly neutral but became more negative over time.

The media framed its early coverage of George W. Bush largely around policy and was less likely to see the new President through a tactical lens than was true eight years earlier of Bill Clinton. 

The First 100 Days: How Bush Versus Clinton Fared in the Press

President Bush was relatively invisible in the press in his first months in office compared with President Clinton in his.

The First 100 Days: How Bush Versus Clinton Fared in the Press

Media assessments of Clinton in his early days were mostly neutral, but the only area in which positive assessments outweighed negative were over his character.

The tone of newspaper stories of Clinton's and Bush's first days in the White House was similar, though Clinton's tended to be more negative.

The First 100 Days: How Bush and Clinton Fared in the Press

George W. Bush's budget plan was the subject that received the most negative media coverage of his young presidency--the only major story where coverage was more negative than neutral.

Media treatment of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush tended to be neutral in their first two months in office, but there was less positive said about Bush's first days.

The First 100 Days: How Bush Versus Clinton Fared in the Press

Stories about Bill Clinton's first two months in office tended to almost as often negative as neutral, but his plans for gays in the military receive the most critical treatment.

The First 100 Days: How Bush Versus Clinton Fared in the Press