BIG THREE INCREASE COVERAGE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES.Byline: New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. The Big Three networks are spending more time this year covering the race for the White House than they did in 1992, but not as much as in 1988. From Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. through last week, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. and NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. devoted 423 minutes of their evening newscasts to the presidential campaign, according to the Tyndall Report, a newsletter that tracks news coverage. The total is up from the 316 minutes the three spent on the 1992 race, but down from the 739 minutes amassed by this point in 1988. According to publisher Andrew Tyndall, the figures are up compared with '92 primarily because of the intense coverage given to the will-he-or-won't-he debate over Colin Powell last fall. Hal Bruno, director of political coverage for ABC, attributes the increase to "a front-loaded, compressed primary schedule. The candidates had to get their campaigns organized much earlier. Our coverage reflects a much faster and much earlier start." As for the more intense coverage in 1988, Tyndall attributed it to several factors: The primaries involved both parties in '88 (because Ronald Reagan was finishing his second term); Sen. Joe Biden's plagiarism Using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work. charges attracted a lot of attention; the on-air to-do between Dan Rather and George Bush pumped up viewer/voter interest; and the on-and-off candidacy of Gary Hart also drew a lot of media and voter interest. So far this campaign, CBS has aired the most coverage. According to Tyndall, CBS has clocked 158 minutes, ABC, 147, and NBC, 118. |
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