2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary has had 113 minutes of network news pre-election coverage, Bernie 10. [View all]Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)the 117 minutes is a count of news stories related to being Sec of State was counted separately from campaign coverage.
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The campaign for the front-runner on the other side of the aisle, Hillary Clinton, was covered for 113 minutes. (Coverage of Clinton controversies dating to her time as Secretary of State was counted separately, and totaled an additional 117 minutes, more than her campaign proper.)
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/06/media/donald-trump-nightly-news-coverage/
I tried to find a direct report on the Tyndall Report, but found the site a little difficult to move around in. Might look later.
So technically her total coverage was 230 minutes in the news Jan-Nov, 113 of that specific to her campaign.
Bernie had ten minutes total in nearly a FULL YEAR. So your assertion that he's "getting no scrutiny" is pretty much moot. He is not breaking out enough to get that kind of intense media attention from TV producers, just like they are not giving that kind of attention or scrutiny to MOM, Cruz, Kasich, on policy or differing ideas or background, etc. unless something changes.
OFF TOPIC, SORT OF - This morning I was trying to get a dollar value for all of Trump's free campaign press (from pundits, to nightly news, to appearing on SNL, appearing on talk shows) - and had already come across the figures in the OP, while researching it from a different perspective.
There can be no doubt that Trump has received tens of millions if not billions of dollars' worth of free campaign air time.
Just trying to get some rate, that CNN blogwriter figures that a 30 second ad block is usually $5000 - multiply that by all the stations/affiliates - and every minute he is on air is worth a lot of dollars. Maybe millions of dollars, if he wanted comparable coverage.
SNL gave him 12 minutes, for example.
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