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Wednesday, February 23, 2005

(Not So) Lacking Political Coverage

It turns out several stations are upset with the Lear Center study which says local TV devoted more time to car crashes than local political races this past election cycle. Several have written to the Center to dispute the methodology, which left out several newscasts. Now the Lear Center has responded (scroll down to the middle of the page to see the follow-up).

Interestingly enough, Lear says it used the "voluntary standard the industry set for itself in the Gore Commission Report of 1998." Only 7 out of 22 on that group were from the broadcast industry, which begs the question: who really agreed to this standard? I bet you it wasn't local stations.

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