The State Of The 2020 US Presidential Race In Media Coverage: Democratic Presidential Candidate Mentions 2019-2020 (CNN/MSNBC/Fox)
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 CNN, MSNBC and Fox News 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.)
Coverage of the race grew over 2019 and kicked into high gear towards the end of January / early February 2020 and abruptly collapsed March 12th as the three stations shifted their coverage to wall-to-wall Covid-19 coverage.
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