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horserace coverage  

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  • Horserace coverage is a term used to describe mass media coverage of political campaigns that focuses on the overall political spectacle, the who's ahead/who's behind mentality of a race, instead of providing essential political information. The international trend of mass media coverage relying on horserace elements during an election is prevalent in print, television, and Internet channels. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Horserace Coverage]

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