A study found hyper-partisan politicians received 4 times the press coverage than their bipartisan colleagues during the midterm elections.

Shannon Longworth Anchor/Reporter

Study: ‘Hyper-partisan politicians’ like Greene get more press coverage

Mar 13, 2023

Shannon Longworth Anchor/Reporter

By Shannon Longworth (Anchor/Reporter), Ben Burke (Producer/Editor)

A study out of George Mason University in collaboration with the nonprofit Starts with Us found “hyper-partisan politicians” received 4 times the press coverage than their bipartisan colleagues did during the 2022 midterm election cycle. A prominent example involved Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Don Bacon (R-NE).

The researchers deemed Rep. Greene “hyper-partisan” and found she was in 335 news items over the course of the 2 months studied. Rep. Bacon was only in 34, even though he was in a tighter race for reelection than Greene. Some of the other “most hyper-partisan” politicians mentioned in the press coverage study include:

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA)
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ)
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)

Tags: Don Bacon, House of Representatives, John Kennedy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate

The more partisan the politician…the more press coverage they get.
Evidently, that was the case in the 2022 midterms, according to a study out of George Mason University in collaboration with the nonprofit Starts with Us.
The study shows “hyper-partisan politicians” received 4 times the press coverage their bipartisan colleagues did.
For example, both Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and Representative Don Bacon are Republicans. The researchers deemed Greene “hyper-partisan” and found she was in 335 news items over the course of the 2 months studied…while Bacon was in 34, even though he was in a tighter race for reelection.
Some of the other, “most hyper-partisan” politicians mentioned in the study include Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Maxine Waters, Norma Torres, John Kennedy, Paul Gosar, and Matt Gaetz.
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