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: April 20, 2009 | | In another week with a mixed news agenda, the media provided some cautiously optimistic assessments of the troubled economy and offered some strikingly different treatment of the tax day tea party protests.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: April 13, 2009 | |
Coverage of the financial meltdown dropped to
its lowest level in months last week as Somali pirates, a trip to Turkey,
a deadly earthquake and a defiant missile launch dominated the news agenda. Is
it a trend or an anomaly?
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: April 6, 2009 | |
Yes, Michelle Obama set some hearts a flutter
and generated some headlines when she laid hands on the Queen last week. But
most of the coverage of the President’s overseas trip focused on the same
challenge he faces at home.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: March 30, 2009 | | Another aspect of the financial crisis took center stage last week as the storyline moved from the AIG bonuses to Tim Geithner’s plan for “toxic assets” in the financial sector. The verdict is far from final, but Geithner seemed to at least stem a recent run of negative news.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: March 23, 2009 | | Last week, the economic meltdown generated its highest weekly level of coverage since the crisis exploded last fall. And the majority of media attention was focused on a three-letter acronym that became a four-letter word.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: March 16, 2009 | | The financial crisis dominated the news for the
seventh week in a row as earmarks, bailouts, and talk of a second stimulus
package helped fuel the narrative. And with Bernard Madoff heading to jail, greed
and excess were recurring themes in the news.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: March 9, 2009 | | For the fourth week in a row, a different component of the faltering economy drove coverage of a crisis now overshadowing every other news event. And the White House and a radio host locked horns in what may actually be a symbiotic relationship.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: March 3, 2009 | | As the White House moved on a number of economic
fronts last week, the financial meltdown and Obama’s big speech accounted for
nearly half the news agenda. And the media distilled an unmistakable message
about the direction of the new administration.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: February 23, 2009 | | Just as the stimulus fight was ending, another debate erupted last week over the President’s new housing package. And Detroit was back, once again with its hand outstretched. Another day, another storyline in the metastasizing economic meltdown.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: February 17, 2009 | | The country’s financial crisis last week became the biggest story in more than three months. The Treasury Secretary got unflattering media reviews, but the press narrative turned more positive for President Obama.
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