Where have you heard this before…?
Over 78 percent more negative news stories discussed a recession when the economy under a Republican was soaring than occurred under a Democrat when the economy was shrinking.
The media’s focus on the negative side of everything surely helps explain people’s pessimism. In a recent interview Fox’s Neil Cavuto claimed this bias “is all part of the media’s plan to get a Democrat in the White House.”
– John Lott, senior research scientist at the University of Maryland
The one flaw in Lott’s Lexis/Nexis search is that it’s just a raw number of articles, and doesn’t compensate for if there were a greater or lower number of total articles during the periods in question. Although it feels true.