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This trend analysis of coverage by influential dailies focuses on a strategic phase late in the 1992 campaign: the presidential and vice presidential debates. Differences in coverage among some of the nation's most influential newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal, are noted. Also examined are the local newspapers The Boston Globe and Boston Herald. Column inches, source identification, and textual tone are analyzed in newspaper-to-newspaper and candidate-to-candidate comparisons. The authors observed a high ratio of negative-to-positive coverage of George Bush's performances in comparison to the other five major presidential and vice presidential candidates and skeptical treatment of Ross Perot's electability.

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Some Aspects of Major Newspaper Coverage of the 1992 Presidential Debates

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