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Cable news covered more of RNC’s peak hour than DNC’s.

thinkprogress.org — During their September 2 and September 3 coverage of the Republican National Convention, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News each dedicated more on-air time — significantly more in most cases — to speeches and other official Republican convention programming during the most-watched portions of their coverage than each channel dedicated to official convention

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  • jepaco, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4What liberal media?
  • PHiZ187, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2This is why I watched the conventions on PBS.
  • bjkrautk, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1The Republicans consciously tried to jam more speaking into their broadcast hour.
    For instance, the introductory video for Gov. Palin that was supposed to air before her speech got bumped to early in the Friday coverage.

    That said, I also watched on PBS (HD) to get more of the speeches, and less of the punditry.
  • DealCracker, on 09/06/2008, -1/+1Measuring how may minutes of coverage were given to one convention over the other is hardly a measure of bias. For example, if MSNBC spent more airtime on the RNC, it was more time spent trashing it.

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