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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.”

Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 -- A Question of Character"

Date Posted: July 27, 2000

A Question of Character: How the media have handled the issue and how the public has reacted

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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.

Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 -- A Question of Character"

Date Posted: July 27, 2000

A Question of Character: How the media have handled the issue and how the public has reacted

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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.”

Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 -- A Question of Character"

Date Posted: July 27, 2000

A Question of Character: How the media have handled the issue and how the public has reacted

A Question of Character: How the media have handled the issue and how the public has reacted

July 27, 2000

If elections are a battle for control of message through the media, George W. Bush has had the better of it on the question of character than Albert Gore Jr., according to this study of coverage leading up to the GOP convention. But the public may not be getting—or believing—the message.

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In the 2000 campaign, the stories featuring the theme of then-Gov. George Bush being a “different kind of Republican” most often cited “campaign tactics and rhetoric” as evidence.

Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 -- A Question of Character"

Date Posted: July 27, 2000

A Question of Character: How the media have handled the issue and how the public has reacted

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Journalists themselves were most often the source of assertions about then Gov. George W. Bush and on every other theme as well.

Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 -- A Question of Character"

Date Posted: July 27, 2000

A Question of Character: How the media have handled the issue and how the public has reacted

ePolitics: A study of the 2000 presidential campaign on the Internet

April 10, 2000

The first-ever study of online coverage of the presidential election found that many of the most popular online portals do not live up to the promise of the Internet as a gateway to new, unfiltered and diverse information about politics.

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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.

Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 - In the Public Interest?"

Date Posted: April 10, 2000

In the Public Interest: A Content Study of Early Coverage of the 2000 Campaign

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Early in the 2000 presidential campaign the primary trigger for stories about the election was the press itself.

Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 - In the Public Interest?"

Date Posted: February 3, 2000

In the Public Interest?: A Content Study of Early Coverage of the 2000 Campaign

In the Public Interest?: A Content Study of Early Coverage of the 2000 Campaign

February 3, 2000

The news media offered the American public a fine education in campaign tactics but told them little about matters that actually will affect them as citizens in the weeks leading up to the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary.

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