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, "ePolitics 2000", Date Posted: April 10, 2000 | | MSNBC led all the studied on-line sites in links to unfiltered information, such as the verbatim text of a candidate's speech or an official campaign policy statement. |
| | Source: PEJ, "ePolitics 2000", Date Posted: April 10, 2000 | | More than 50 percent of the online leads PEJ examined contained at least five sources. |
| | Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 - In the Public Interest?", Date Posted: February 3, 2000 | | Early in the 2000 presidential campaign the most of the stories done were about impacts on the candidates themselves rather than citizens or interest groups. |
| | Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 - In the Public Interest?", Date Posted: February 3, 2000 | Early in the 2000 presidential campaign the news media was mostly focused on the politics of the race.
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| | Source: PEJ, "Campaign 2000 - In the Public Interest?", Date Posted: February 3, 2000 | | Early in the 2000 presidential campaign the primary trigger for stories about the election was the press itself. |
| | Source: PEJ, "The Clinton Crisis and the Press - A Second Look", Date Posted: March 27, 1998 | The Associated Press relied less on named sources in its coverage of the Clinton sex scandal six weeks after it began the news agency did in the first controversial days. |
| | Source: PEJ, "The Clinton Crisis and the Press - A Second Look", Date Posted: March 27, 1998 | Interestingly, tabloid media outlets did a better job of using named sources than mainstream outlets did in a March 1998 sample of coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga.
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| | Source: PEJ, "The Clinton Crisis and the Press - A Second Look", Date Posted: March 27, 1998 | Story sourcing got slightly better as the Clinton-Lewinsky saga wore on as evidenced by the small rise in pieces with “2 or more named sources.”
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| | Source: PEJ: "The Clinton Crisis and the Press - A Second Look", Date Posted: March 27, 1998 | | From the PEJ study "The Clinton Crisis and the Press: A Second Look." This chart shows how anonymous sources were described or characterized in news stories about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal that appeared over three days in 1998: January 23, March 5, and March 6. |
| | Source: PEJ, "Changing Definitions of News", Date Posted: March 6, 1998 | Between 1977 and 1997, the percentage of "straight news" stories that simply described events dropped, and the percentage of stories that emphasized a distinct narrative theme from the journalist framing the event increased.
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