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+# Media Mentions 2020
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+This folder contains the data behind a [series of stories](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/beto-orourke-ignored-cable-news-and-it-ignored-him/) about how often 2020 Democratic candidates are mentioned in cable news.
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+`cable_weekly.csv` contains the mentions of currently declared [major candidates](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/heres-how-were-defining-a-major-presidential-candidate/) for the 2020 Democratic primary since December 30, 2018 across CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. The TV News Archive measures coverage by splitting daily news footage into 15-second clips and finding the clips that contain a mention of our search query. Our search queries are the full names of each candidate. 
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+Column | Description
+-------|------------
+`date` | Start date for the week of coverage. A week of coverage spans from Sunday through Saturday. The cutoff for measuring coverage for any given day is midnight Eastern Standard Time. (Clock changes for Daylight Saving Time are ignored.)
+`name` | Candidate's name
+`matched_clips` | Number of 15-second clips that match the query
+`total_clips` | Total number of 15-second clips that week across the three networks
+`pct` | (`matched_clips` / `total_clips`) * 100
+`query` | Query for the GDELT Television API
+
+Data is collected using the [GDELT Television API](https://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-2-0-television-api-debuts/), which processes the data from the [TV News Archive](https://archive.org/details/tv).