You can find an interesting analysis of media coverage of the Iowa caucuses online from two different perspectives - content and design. The Project for Excellence in Journalism looks at the content in print, online and broadcast coverage of the wins by Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee. The theme in most news outlets, according to the analysis, was surprise and change. At the Poynter Institute, you can find a look at the different design approaches many newspapers took to the caucus coverage. An interesting point raised by the author: Do newspapers still have to follow the age-old idea of presenting both sides equally? In other words, did Obama and Huckabee deserve equal play?
What do you think of that? Many papers played their pictures of equal size, but a few ignored that idea. What about the coverage in general? What did you like and why?
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