What Americans Learned From the Media About the Health Care Debate

Project for Excellence in Journalism examines What Americans Learned From the Media About the Health Care Debate. "When it was a major story, however, most of the coverage focused on the politics of the bill rather than the substance of the legislation. And the language and framing of the issue favored by the bill’s Republican critics was far more prevalent in the news coverage than the language and framing favored by Democrats supporting the bill, according to research conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism."