politics. at the same time, we have the polarization, you had that wonderful tape out in montana about people s reaction to the body slam. you can see that we are polarized. a lot of that is working its way into political discourse. so it is more negative but the press is concentrating on what s going wrong. professor, we love to claim that we yes or arn for more substance. there s a pie chart that says coverage was 42% in the 2016 race about the horse race nature of this. only 10% of coverage was on policy. do we really want policy coverage or do we just say that? well, i think to a degree we do say that. you do surveys, people say they would like to hear more about the issues, and then they do the issue coverage and we don t pay much attention to it. to me, striking thing about coverage in 2016 was how much
you can see that we are polarized. a lot of that is working its way into political discourse. so it is more negative but the press is concentrating on what s going wrong. professor, we love to claim that we yearn for more substance. there s a pie chart that says coverage was 42% in the 2016 race about the horse race nature of this. only 10% of coverage was on policy. do we really want policy coverage or do we just say that? well, i think to a degree we do say that. you do surveys, people say they would like to hear more about the issues, and then they do the issue coverage and we don t pay much attention to it. to me, striking thing about coverage in 2016 was how much these policy and leadership controversies, how big they were. they got twice as much coverage as substantive policy issues.