From your yahoo link…
In the lead-up to the midterms, Fox averaged 141 weekday violent crime segments per week from Labor Day through the Friday before the election. The two weeks prior to Election Day, those starting October 24 and October 31, featured the highest number of weekday violent crime segments of the period studied: 187 and 193 segments, respectively. That coverage dropped dramatically during the week of the election, which had just 71 weekday violent crime segments.
Sure it dropped but now how do I find the ABC, NBC, CBS, MSDNC, CNN stats of their weekly coverage? I’d like to see how close they come to what this article considers a low number of 71 WEEKLY violent crime segments!
But yeah they will bump them up for midterms. Why not? It’s the only MSM channel that stumps for Rs versus around 10 or so that stump for Ds. And crime is a big issue… it didn’t stop at midterms, but makes sense it dropped down probably to their normal average during non election times.
Just like abortion coverage on liberal media. I’m guessing those have dropped significantly, but not sure they keep that stat anywhere. Most likely they just like to keep track of Fox to nit pic them. I took a look at that “media matters” site and its just littered with Fox News and conservative hit pieces
They should fix the name to Liberal Media Matters