Report: Media Covered Giffords Shooting TWICE As Much As Scalise Shooting

The Federalist’s Joy Pullman conducted an apples to apples comparison on nationwide newspaper coverage of the shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords and the shooting of Republican Rep. Steve Scalise, and the takeaway could not be more clear: the national media is far more interested in covering an attack on a Democrat than an attack on a Republican. In fact, to put a number on it, national newspapers are more than twice as interested in writing about a Democrat victim than a Republican victim.

Using the LexisNexis database of newspaper archives and Wayback Machine Internet archives, Pullman found that “in the week after each shooting incident, newspapers nationwide ran more than twice as many articles mentioning Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as they have Rep. Steve Scalise.”