The 2000 Presidential campaign was marked by many bitter exchanges as well as controversial new strategies that raised new criticism of election campaigns. In November, the election ended not at the ballot box, but in the Supreme Court. Through it all CMPA researchers tracked television coverage of the campaign and our results can be found by following the links to the right.

Results of CMPA research from 1988 - 1996 are available in the revised second edition of Good Intentions Make Bad News: Why Americans Hate Campaign Journalism (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).

Campaign 2000 -- The Primaries:
TV News Coverage of the Democratic and GOP Primaries (March/April 2000)

Campaign 2000 Final:
How TV Covered the General Election Campaign (November/December 2000)

Press Releases

Networks to Candidates Get Lost (January 20, 2000)
Networks Say Elian Si, Election No (January 31, 2000)
MCain Goes on Leno, But Bush is Top Joke Target (March 1, 2000)
Convention Coverage Gore-Ifies Al (September 5, 2000)
Campaign 2000: More News, Less Filling (September 21, 2000)
The Incredible Shrinking Sound Bite (September 28, 2000)
TV News See Gore As Winner (October 5, 2000)
Bush is Still Biggest Joke on Late Night TV (October 18, 2000)
TV Has Bad News For Gore (October 20, 2000)
PBS Bests Networks in Election News (October 23, 2000)
Journalists Monopolize TV Election News (October 30, 2000)
TV Networks Go Negative (November 2, 2000)
Media Feeding Frenzy in Florida (November 22, 2000)
Dubya Dethrones Clinton as Late Night Laugh Target (December 20, 2000)
Florida Trouble Triples TV Attention (December 20, 2000)