Publication

The US media have followed President Bush into the start of his second term relatively modestly, as is shown by a long-term Media Tenor analysis. Although coverage in the prime time news of the three big networks ABC, NBC and CBS continued to be predominantly negative during the first quarter of 2005, it was significantly better than a year before, at the beginning of the election year. Yet, Bush has not reached the positive media image of his first year in office, when he was evaluated very positively, in particular after the attacks of September 11th, 2001.