News Index: Our Weekly Content Analysis
This section contains the complete archive of all the PEJ News Coverage 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: November 16, 2009 | | Coverage of the Army base massacre continued to dominate headlines as some of last week’s coverage examined whether Nidal Malik Hasan should have been stopped before his November 5 attack. And by week’s end, the plan to bring alleged 9/11 conspirators to trial in New York was dominating the headlines.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 9, 2009 | The U.S. unemployment rate jumped, the Afghan runoff election was cancelled and the House of Representatives passed a health care bill last week. But those stories all took a back seat to coverage of the killing spree at Fort Hood Texas, which quickly became a story about Islam and possibly, terrorism.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 2, 2009 | | Coverage of health care was up last week, the economy was down and the war in Afghanistan remained about the same. But together, this trio continued their run atop the news agenda, a pattern we began to see settle in earlier this fall.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 26, 2009 | | The economic crisis topped the news agenda last week as Wall Street pay packages triggered anger and action in Washington. Agreement on a runoff election also generated a spike in Afghanistan coverage, and hostilities between the White House and Fox News made the roster of top stories.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 19, 2009 | |
Ending a lull in coverage, the battle over
health care reform returned as the No. 1 story last week as 23 senators cast
votes on the issue. But the nation—and the media—were also captivated by a
strange story about a six-year-old boy that began as breathless breaking cable
news.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 13, 2009 | | It was a war that often had trouble breaking into the headlines. But in recent months, with President Obama facing a crucial decision over whether to escalate U.S. involvement, coverage of Afghanistan increased noticeably. And last week, as the policy debate intensified, the story dominated finally the news.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 5, 2009 | |
Health care and the economy generated coverage
last week, but the news agenda highlighted three geopolitical problems facing
President Obama—negotiating with Iran, fighting in Afghanistan and trying to
convince the IOC to bring the Olympics to the U.S.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: September 28, 2009 | | For one week at least, the battle over health care reform and the troubled U.S. economy faded in the news. Instead, a series of daunting overseas challenges, highlighted by a surprise announcement about Iranian nukes, drove the press narrative.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: September 21, 2009 | | The debate over health care took a new turn last week, as politicians and the media reacted to a new Senate proposal. And one outgrowth of the polarizing battle was that race played its biggest role in the media narrative since Obama became president. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: September 14, 2009 | |
Due largely to the President’s prime time
address to Congress, coverage of the health care reform issue exploded last
week. And an Obama speech to school children that wasn’t so controversial after
all also made the top story list.
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