This publicly accessible tool helps journalists (and anyone else who’s interested) for the first time to perform data-driven analyses of the content found on television.
Category: Campaign Finance: The Rising Cost of Winning Votes
San Francisco last year saw a high-water mark for spending on elections, with nearly $28 million flowing into slickly produced campaigns that flooded the airwaves and filled mailboxes with questionable claims about ballot measures and candidates. The Public Press partnered with the TV Archive, a project of the San Francisco-based Internet Archive, to examine the facts, half-truths and misstatements that aired before November 2015’s pivotal election.
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Tracking TV News — and the Challenges Involved
Despite numerous challenges, our findings quantified how the local election was covered: Coverage was scarce — and repetitive.
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Mining the Internet Archive’s TV News
The director of the TV News Archive sits down with us to explain how people can use the database to search for news segments and share them on social media.
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Slick, Misleading TV Ads Paid Off
The 2015 election united the political clout of two rich, powerful industries that will exert an enduring in uence across the city, Bay Area and nation: real estate and technology.
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Election Ads Overshadowed TV News 7-to-1
Bay Area stations surveyed aired a combined 25.8 hours of paid political ads. By comparison, they aired about 3.5 hours of election news coverage.
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In Bid for Dominance, Mayor’s Allies Flood S.F. Politics With Corporate Cash
Last year spending on local elections was the highest on record, reaching nearly $28 million. The infusion of cash demonstrates how politicians and their powerful associates wield an influence on the political process that our campaign finance laws cannot effectively or appropriately manage.
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What Don’t We Know About Campaign Finance?
The Public Press spent six months digging and sorting, and many hours talking with staff at the Ethics Commission for clarification on the best ways to find and distill the information on the 2015 elections.