Numbers: Our Data Library
This library contains all data PEJ creates or collects about the news media. The selections below will appear as charts you can customize. Use the menus on the left to filter the data according to your interests.
| | Source: PEJ, "The Debate Effect", Date Posted: October 27, 2004 | | As in print, most of the stories on network TV about the presidential debates in 2004 were about both candidates, not focused on one or the other. |
| | Source: PEJ, "Character and the Campaign", Date Posted: July 12, 2004 | For both Sen. Kerry and President Bush, rebuttals of the dominant themes of the campaign were not frequent. The charge of Kerry being liberal received the most rebuttals. |
| | Source: PEJ, "Character and the Campaign", Date Posted: July 12, 2004 | | The character themes embedded in the coverage of the candidates in the spring leading up to the conventions tended to emphasize negative attributes of George Bush and John Kerry. |
| | Source: PEJ, "Character and the Campaign", Date Posted: July 12, 2004 | The dominant candidate campaign themes for the 2004 election focused on President Bush and were negative in nature.
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| | Source: PEJ, "Character and the Campaign", Date Posted: July 12, 2004 | The press coverage leading up to the conventions in 2004 tended to focus on Bush, both positive and negative character themes. There was little about comparatively little about John Kerry and most of it tended to be negative.
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| | Source: PEJ, "Character and the Campaign", Date Posted: July 12, 2004 | | The dominant source for what the press was writing about the candidates in the spring of 2004 was the campaigns themselves, including the rival campaigns’ attack operations. |
| | Source: PEJ & PRC, "2004 Journalist Survey", Date Posted: May 23, 2004 | | Journalists in 2004 were increasingly concerned with the effect of business pressures on their work. |
| | Source: Jesse Hamlin, ’’NBC declares victory in war’s TV ratings battle,’’ San Francisco Chronicle, quoting Nielsen Media Research data., Date Posted: March 15, 2004 | | The broadcast networks such as NBC and CBS remained the breaking news source of choice on television at the onset of the Iraq war in 2003. |
| | Source: RTNDF, 2003 News Directors and the American Public Study, Date Posted: March 15, 2004 | The public is much more skeptical of the motives inside local TV news than the news professionals who work in the industry. |
| | Source: PEJ, "ePolitics 2004: How Online Campaign Coverage Has Changed in Four Years", Date Posted: February 5, 2004 | | In comparison with newspapers, the election front pages of online news sites featured a depth of stories. |
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