The State Of The 2020 US Presidential Race In Media Coverage: Democratic Presidential Candidate Mentions 2019-2020 (ABC/NBC/CBS Evening News)
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Using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive processed by the GDELT Project, the streamgraph below shows the total number of mentions of each of the major 2020 Democratic presidential candidates across the combined airtime of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news broadcasts from January 1, 2019 to April 20, 2020. (A streamgraph is an area chart where the data series are stacked on top and below of each other around a central axis; positioning above/below is not meaningful -- only the relative height of each series.)
While evening news coverage mentioned the race sporadically in several bursts, coverage really took off in January 2020, ending in mid-March as the Covid-19 crisis took off.
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