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New Harvard Study: False Equivalence Helped Elect Donald Trump
- FlavorWire, Friday, December 9, 2016 12:32 PM
A new study from the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government shows the mainstream media were much more focused on Clinton’s scandals than Trump’s, equating their mistakes equally, rather than spending time on the truthfulness and importance of each claim. From the study: “Clinton’s alleged scandals accounted for 16% of her coverage—four times the amount of press attention paid to Trump’s treatment of women and sixteen times the amount of news coverage given to Clinton’s most heavily covered policy position.”
