Politicians through the press: a Spanish case study during 2008-2012

The press cover the politicians’ message and grant them a degree of media visibility, insinuating more or less support for any given party and giving the general public a particular vision of the political class through the media influence on politics. This paper is the result of a study of national coverage of politics (2008-2012), as published in two leading Spanish media sources (El País and El Mundo), with a particular emphasis on the Popular Party (PP) and the Spanish Social Workers’ Party (PSOE). The research considers whether the media give a political use to political information through media negativity. The conclusion was that both daily newspapers use the information in a biased and negative way when dealing with Spanish political information