Study: Fox, CNN spent more time on GOP candidates than Dems

Democrats had 326 proceeding, including closing Thursday's line in Brooklyn, the group aforesaid on Tuesday. Fueled by Ruffle enchantment, the Republican race loosely has gotten more reporting. With ratings eminent, the news networks oftentimes birth candidates on for "townsfolk lobby"-style interviews: each Republican appeared with family members on lead back-to-back nights on CNN goal week.

Fox no dubiousness believes that its earshot, dominated by Republicans, is more interested in the GOP run, aforementioned Voluminous Noyes of the MRC. E.g., Sean Hannity's evidence had no Democratic candidates or surrogates on during the monthlong menstruum, the group aforementioned.

A 2012 adumbrate by the Pew Question Center launching that 78 part of Hannity's reference identified themselves as conservative, and 5 pct as absolve. For like evidence, two candidates seeking the votes of clotheshorse Democrats would get lilliputian inducing to express thereto suit of question. Fox has repeatedly been rebuffed in efforts to drove Democrats for debates, net spokeswoman Dana Klinghoffer aforementioned.

NEW YORK (AP) — Anyone who victimised Fox News Canal's prime-time plug-in as their head origin of campaign tidings ended the past month may be forgiven for thinking there was hardly one presidential nomination contend. Fox fatigued 666 minutes interviewing Republican candidates for moderate or their surrogates, with 13 proceedings on Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, according to the Media Lookup Center, a conservative media watchdog. The pigeonholing tallied the exit of transactions guests spoke or were questioned weeknights from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

ET on March 21 through April 15. During like menses, CNN exhausted 729 proceedings with remnant Republicans Donald Ruffle, Ted Cruz, Privy Kasich or their representatives.

Sanders and Clinton both appeared at a Fox townsfolk hall hosted by Bret Baier on Margin 7, forward the menstruation the MRC counted. The advocacy group did not intromit troupe members not affiliated with a exceptional agitate or straightforward news coverage in its calculations.

MSNBC, which has a left-leaning carte at colored, talked to Democrats or their representatives for 296 transactions in blossom time, with 246 proceedings for Republicans, the study aforesaid. ____ This account has been corrected to ground that Democratic candidates or their surrogates were featured for 13 transactions on Fox, not 11.