*Campaign ’16: how coverage rerouted* /With surprising ease, the far right led mainstream media to cover its preferred issues, massive Berkman Klein study finds/ September 8, 2017 | Editor's Pick By Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Staff Writer If you thought that media coverage during the 2016 presidential election seemed, more often than not, to boost Donald Trump and criticize Hillary Clinton, you didn’t imagine it, a new report says. According to the report from Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, which applied data analysis techniques to 2 million election stories to understand better what people were reading and sharing, Trump not only got the most attention from media outlets across the political spectrum, but his preferred core issues — immigration, jobs and trade —  received significant coverage and were widely shared online. In contrast, news about Clinton focused negatively on her family charitable foundation, her use of a private email server as U.S. secretary of state, and the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the study found. […] Continua qui: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/09/conservative-media-dominated-...