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According to Peverill Squire and Christina Fastnow, "voters tend to learn about office-holders from the media...newspapers are the major source of news about state politics. "

The purpose of this blog is to present my analyses of Star Tribune's news coverage of the governor's race. I will be reading literature on the news coverage of gubernatorial candidates and elections and applying that reading to the articles within the Star Tribune in order to analyze. I will be analyzing the content, location, tone, length, sources, and all other aspects of the articles.

Sources

Baum, Matthew A., and Angela S. Jamison. "The Oprah Effect: How Soft News Helps Inattentive Citizens Vote Consistently." The Journal of Politics 68.04 (2006). Print.
Entman, Robert M. "How the Media Affect What People Think: An Information Processing Approach." The Journal of Politics 51.2 (1989): 347-70. Print.
Hayes, Danny. "Does the Messenger Matter? Candidate-Media Agenda Convergence and Its Effects on Voter Issue Salience." Political Research Quarterly 61.1 (2008): 134-46. Print.
Iyengar, Shanto, and Donald R. Kinder. "News That Matters: Television and American Opinion." The American Journal of Sociology 94.4 (1989): 882-84. Print.
Kahn, Kim Fridkin. "Characteristics of Press Coverage in Senate and Gubernatorial Elections: Information Available to Voters." Legislative Studies Quarterly 20.1 (1995): 23-25. Print.
Ridout, T. N., and G. R. Smith. "Free Advertising: How the Media Amplify Campaign Messages." Political Research Quarterly 61.4 (2008): 598-608. Print.
Squire, Peverill, and Christina Fastnow. "Comparing Gubernatorial and Senatorial Elections." Political Research Quarterly 47.3 (1994): 705-20. Print. 
Wayne, Stephen J. The Road to the White House 2008: the Politics of Presidential Elections. Boston, MA:      Thomson/Wadsworth, 2008. Print.
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