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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.

  • PEJ Talk Show Index, Feb. 4 - 9, 2007: Talk Hosts Feed the Anna Nicole Frenzy

    Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: February 14, 2007
    There was plenty of conversation about Rudy Giuliani and Scooter Libby on the radio and cable talk shows last week. And the debate over Iraq continued to be the biggest topic. But the mysterious death of a blonde bombshell pushed everything else to the sidelines, as the talkers took up time wondering about her appeal.

  • PEJ Talk Show Index, Jan. 28 - Feb. 2, 2007: The Talk is All About War, Politics, and Pet Topics

    Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: February 8, 2007
    The nation’s radio and cable talk shows can’t resist talking about the blockbuster hot button issues like Iraq and the presidential campaign. But on subjects ranging from global warming and tensions with Iran to the Scooter Libby trial and the death of Molly Ivins, the talk conversation is very much shaped by the hosts’ own agendas.

  • PEJ Talk Show Index, Jan. 21 - 26, 2007: The Talk is All About Iraq, Clinton, and Bush

    Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 31, 2007

    The cable talkers didn’t have much to say about the State of the Union address, and the liberal hosts didn’t weigh in on Clinton’s presidential bid. But war and politics still managed to dominate the talk show agenda last week—even more so than the overall news coverage.

  • PEJ Talk Show Index, Jan. 14 - 19, 2007: Campaign 2008 Emerges as a Major Talk Show Topic

    Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 24, 2007
    It may come as no surprise that the president’s Iraq strategy was the hottest topic on cable and radio talk shows last week. But the second edition of the PEJ Talk Show Index also reveals that the idea of a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton battle for Democratic hearts and minds got tongues wagging and pundits pontificating.

  • PEJ Talk Show Index, Jan. 7 - 12, 2007: Talk Shows Battle it Out Over the "Surge" Strategy

    Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 17, 2007
    While the President’s plan to commit 22,000 more troops to Iraq dominated the media agenda last week, it was an even bigger story in the radio and cable talk show universe, according to the first edition of the new PEJ Talk Show Index. From Rush Limbaugh to Keith Olbermann, talk hosts across the political spectrum weighed in on the surge, mirroring the raging debate in Washington and throughout the country.
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