When mail-in voting became a key topic during Covid, Fox News covered it at around half the rate of CNN and MSNBC, but over the past year while its peers have mentioned it dozens to hundreds of times a week and President Trump has focused heavily on it, Fox News has barely mentioned the topic.
Annotate this timeline with brief explanations of the major trends. Make the annotations look like professional journalistic annotations. Annotated ALL of the sustained surges in coverage with the events that most likely drove them. Do NOT change the timeline itself at all, just add your annotations to the image.
Let's first look at the past decade and a half:
Let's zoom into just the period since Covid when it has been in the news and switch to weekly rolling average to smooth it better. Note how Fox News is barely covering mail in voting this year.
