The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism conducted a study of the media coverage of all presidential candidates, including incumbent, Barack Obama. The study found that President Obama has received the most negative coverage of anyone in the race. They also concluded that Ron Paul has benefited from good coverage on the Internet.
One man running for president has suffered the most unrelentingly negative treatment of all, the study found: Barack Obama. Though covered largely as president rather than a candidate, negative assessments of Obama have outweighed positive by a ratio of almost 4-1. Those assessments of the president have also been substantially more negative than positive every one of the 23 weeks studied. And in no week during these five months was more than 10% of the coverage about the president positive in tone.
