32 Minutes: Did broadcast news do its duty in the 2016 US Presidential Election?
If you felt that media coverage of the recent US Presidential Election appeared to lack focus on policy issues, you may well be correct.
Could your political thesis find a wider audience?
Guest post by Michael Brennan, Political Editor of the Sunday Business Post. Every year, there are hundreds of theses completed by students of political science. Some may make it into academic journals and others are the source material for articles in the opinion pages of newspapers or are highlighted by the Political Studies Association of Ireland…
Explaining media coverage of the 2011 election
There is an assumption in the literature on the media coverage of elections that it is being Americanised or ‘dumbed down’. Election coverage can be thought to vary on whether substantive policy issues are discussed or if the coverage centres on the likely result and/ or the parties’ electoral strategies. For instance in the last…
Irish Politics Forum 