Talk Show Index: A Content Analysis of Opinion Programming
This section contains the complete archive of all the PEJ Talk Show Indexes. They are published below in chronological order, but our archive is also searchable. Use the key word search on the left to find reports about specific news events.
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: April 10, 2008 |
Two liberal radio hosts, Randi Rhodes and Ed Schultz, generated headlines and a backlash last week for their rhetoric in attacking Hillary Clinton and John McCain. And some conservative talkers see pro-Barack Obama media bias behind the calls on Clinton to withdraw.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: March 27, 2008 | | In a week in which the campaign overwhelmingly
dominated the talk airwaves, the hottest issue was Obama’s speech aimed at
dampening the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy. In the talk show universe, the response
was impassioned, but the verdict was far from unanimous.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 17, 2008 | The two biggest names in talk radio are telling their listeners how to separate the real conservatives from phonies. And some hosts seemed to “cover” the campaign by becoming part of the story.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: December 20, 2007 | | All year long, Hillary Clinton has dominated the
campaign conversation on the talk airwaves. And last week, signs that the Democratic
battle for president might be tightening had many hosts talking up the idea of a
Clinton swoon. Plus, Michael Savage on steroids. (Talking
about them, not taking them.)
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: December 13, 2007 | | Thanks to Mitt Romney’s big speech on his Mormon
faith, the presidential race was the biggest story of the week in the talk
universe last week. And while the new intelligence report on Iran sparked a lively debate, the CIA’s destruction of two
terror interrogation tapes didn’t generate much interest.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 15, 2007 | Dennis Kucinich’s call to impeach Vice President Cheney made nary a blip with the general media last week but it was a big story on in the talk media, especially on the left side of the talk radio dial. Meanwhile the many angles of the 2008 campaign gave everyone grist to talk about.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 8, 2007 | | Thanks in part to the Democrats’ spirited debate
in Philadelphia,
last week was the biggest week of the year for the presidential campaign in the
universe of radio and cable talk shows. The main course was the Democratic
front runner who got carved up by hosts and pundits of various political
stripes.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 1, 2007 | | The disaster in Southern
California dominated the conversation in the talk show universe
last week. Not every host played the story the same way. But for some the
search was on for bad guys—with FEMA and environmentalists getting caught in
the crosshairs.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 24, 2007 | | Three of the top-10 topics on the cable and
radio talk shows last week directly involved the hosts themselves. They
included an argument over the SCHIP health care program, the debate over U.S. policy in Iraq, and the strange case of Randi
Rhodes.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 18, 2007 |
The debut of Fred Thompson as a GOP debater helped make last
week the second-biggest week of the year in the talk show universe for the 2008
presidential campaign. But so did a talk brouhaha over a more tangential topic
involving the debate. Also, conservative Michael Savage lets a conservative
pundit have it.
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