Coverage of the 2012 presidential candidates is overwhelmingly negative, and journalists reporting on the campaign have less control over the election themes, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.Since 2000, the percentage of campaign themes coming from the press has shrunk by half, the study says, from 50 percent to 27 percent. Meanwhile, the campaigns’ control on the assertions about the candidates has grown from 37 percent to 48 percent.
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