{"id":59324,"date":"2013-11-21T19:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=59324"},"modified":"2013-11-21T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T05:20:09","slug":"tired-of-hearing-about-obamacare-stop-watching-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/11\/21\/tired-of-hearing-about-obamacare-stop-watching-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired of Hearing about Obamacare? Turn Off Fox."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the Pew Research Center released<\/a> data on the news coverage of Typhoon Haiyan — a disaster that has killed at least 4,000 people<\/a> — and the bungled Obamacare website roll-out. \u00a0Comparing 20 hours of news coverage over four major U.S. channels, they found dramatic differences. \u00a0The data below shows the hours and minutes spent on each topic at each channel (red = Obamacare, yellow = the typhoon).<\/p>\n

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First, the two partisan channels (Fox News and MSNBC) gave more time to Obamacare than the typhoon. \u00a0On MSNBC, there was four times as much coverage of Obamacare. \u00a0On Fox, there as a stunning 80 times as much coverage. \u00a0Al Jazeera America and CNN spent significantly more time on the typhoon, likely reflecting their more global focus and less of an ideological mission.<\/p>\n

The channels also differed in how much time they spent on facts\/reporting versus opinion\/commentary. \u00a0Check it out:<\/p>\n

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While most all of us sometimes lazily refer to “the media” as if it’s a homogeneous thing, it’s important to remember that our perceptions of reality are strongly shaped by which<\/em> media we consume.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the Pew Research Center released data on the news coverage of Typhoon Haiyan — a disaster that has killed at least 4,000 people — and the bungled Obamacare website roll-out. \u00a0Comparing 20 hours of news coverage over four major U.S. channels, they found dramatic differences. \u00a0The data below shows the hours and minutes spent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":59336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,126,252,129,23624,85],"class_list":["post-59324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-disaster","tag-healthmedicine","tag-media","tag-media-newsopinion","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/11\/large-11.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59337,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59324\/revisions\/59337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}