media_mentions_2020: 2020 Presidential Candidates Media Mentions

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Description

The raw data behind the story "Beto O'Rourke Ignored Cable News - And It Ignored Him" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/beto-orourke-ignored-cable-news-and-it-ignored-him/

Usage

media_mentions_cable

media_mentions_online

Format

2 dataframes about 2020 presidential candidate media mentions

An object of class spec_tbl_df (inherits from tbl_df, tbl, data.frame) with 954 rows and 6 columns.

media_mentions_cable

A data frame with 972 rows representing weeks of cable coverage and 7 variables:

date

start date for the week of coverage

name

candidate's name

matched_clips

number of 15-second clips in that week that mention the specified candidate

all_candidate_clips

number of 15-second clips in that week that mention any candidates

total_clips

total number of 15-second clips that week across the three networks

pct_of_all_candidate_clips

percentage of clips in which that specific candidate is mentioned out of all clips mentioning any candidate for that week (matched_clips / all_candidate_clips)

query

query used for the GDELT Television API

media_mentions_online

A data frame with 954 rows representing weeks and 6 variables:

date

start date for the week of coverage

name

candidate's name

matched_stories

number of stories in that week that mention the specified candidate

all_candidate_stories

number of stories in that week that mention any candidate

pct_of_all_candidate_stories

percentage of stories in which that specific candidate is mentioned out of all stories mentioning any candidate for that week (matched_stories / all_candidate_stories)

query

query for Media Cloud

Source

The GDELT Television API https://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-2-0-television-api-debuts/, which processes the data from the TV News Archive https://archive.org/details/tv.

Two collections in the Media Cloud https://mediacloud.org/ database U.S. Top Online News https://sources.mediacloud.org/#/collections/58722749 and U.S. Top Digital Native News https://sources.mediacloud.org/#/collections/57078150

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