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A team of MRC analysts logged each prime time interview of a presidential candidate or a plainly-identified supporter or surrogate on CNN, MSNBC and the Fox News Channel over the past four weeks (March 21 to April 15, weekdays only), poring over approximately 240 hours of programming.
Our study found that FNC spent much more time interviewing Trump and his surrogates than either of his GOP competitors. Over the past four weeks, Trump was interviewed for a total of 178 minutes on Fox, vs. 106 minutes on CNN and 43 minutes on MSNBC. (Interviews includes network-sponsored town halls as well as sit-downs with a network host, but not debates or live coverage of rallies or speeches.)
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There’s obviously more to news coverage than just interviews, including day-to-day reporting and roundtables with the networks’ own pundits as well as non-aligned party members. But the tally of interview and town hall airtime shows, once again, that the Donald Trump is getting the lion’s share of media attention this year.
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In last month Fox coveredTrump almost 3x more than Cruz despite Cruz winning 5 straight states during that time. https://t.co/RSKjmMJ8ob
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) April 18, 2016
Media Research Center review of Primetime intvs…interesting Kasich got most time on MSNBC https://t.co/vjQxZRWwW8 pic.twitter.com/DkcwHUYbpd
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) April 18, 2016
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