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 12, 2007 | | With the exception of the war in Iraq, international affairs tend not to generate major media
interest. But General Pervez Musharraf’s Nov. 3 declaration of emergency rule
in Pakistan proved to be a dramatic exception to that rule—and there
may be several disquieting reasons why.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 5, 2007 | | The presidential race was easily the biggest story in the media last week. But while much of the coverage focused on the attacks on Hillary Clinton at the Democrats’ Drexel University debate, the press also reassessed several other candidates.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 29, 2007 | | The wildfires that raged in Southern California last week featured numerous tales of bravery, tragedy,
and plenty of missing pets. But one reason
the disaster became such a major story was that journalists couldn’t resist
raising the comparison—fair or not—with the 2005 fiasco on the Gulf Coast.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 22, 2007 | | What did last week’s flare up of violence in Pakistan, the scary news about a deadly “superbug,” and the
ideological skirmishes among presidential hopefuls have in common? They were all
top stories, but each seemed more suited for a different media sector.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 15, 2007 | While crime coverage may seem like a staple of our news diet, last week was actually unusual in that three frightening stories of random violence generated coverage—with two making the top-10 story list. When it comes to crime however, the media attention span is usually short-lived.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 9, 2007 | | For years, journalists struggled to report on the activities the private security firms in Iraq, companies who functioned in some ways as private armies. But last week, when the story of one such company moved from the streets of Baghdad to the hearing rooms on Capitol Hill, the media shed more light on the mystery.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 1, 2007 | | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speaking trip to New York proved irresistible for the news media last week. But once you got past the hype, the politics, and the First Amendment debate, how much did we learn about Iran?
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: September 24, 2007 | | The arrest of O.J. Simpson not only conjured up memories of the famous murder trial of a dozen years ago, it also recalled the media feeding frenzy that surrounded that trial. And as was the case back in 1995, the story last week was a made-for-TV drama.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: September 17, 2007 | | The general’s appearance before Congress last week was widely expected to be a pivot point in the political brawl over Iraq war policy. The media swarmed, but the story they told may help explain why David Petraeus’s testimony seemed, for now, to cement the status quo.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: September 10, 2007 | | The political skirmishing in advance of General Petraeus’ progress report made the Iraq debate the top story last week. And Fred Thompson’s entry helped generate coverage of the 2008 Presidential race. But a new video, a major arrest in Germany, and two mysterious men in Seattle proved why terrorism is still a major newsmaker.
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