Indexes: Our Weekly Content Analysis
This section contains the complete archive of all PEJ 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: June 9, 2011 | |
For the first time
in two months—driven largely by the Sarah Palin bus tour—the news discussion on
blogs turned back to politics. On Twitter, business strategies for social media
and concerns about global warming led the way. And on YouTube, the economic
crisis in Spain was the subject of the two most popular videos.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 5, 2011 | |
Bad economic news became a political story last
week as analysts evaluated the impact on President Obama’s fortunes. Sarah
Palin’s bus tour drew as much attention as Mitt Romney’s presidential announcement
with the campaign generating its highest level of coverage yet. And two
political scandals provoked much speculation and one indictment.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 2, 2011 | | A Supreme Court decision forcing California to release thousands of prisoners due to overcrowding received harsh criticism from bloggers last week, while others weighed in on the arrest of a suspect in a brutal baseball game beating. On YouTube, an interview with Jon Stewart on The O’Reilly Factor garnered the most attention. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 30, 2011 | |
The latest
outbreak of violent spring storms proved to be the biggest weather story in
PEJ’s four years of tracking news coverage. An election in New York State
turned into a major economic story and the prospect of a Palin candidacy helped
drive coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign last week.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 27, 2011 | | How have social media responded to President Obama’s controversial speech about the conflict in the Middle East? This special edition of PEJ’s New Media Index is an in-depth look at the tone of the complex conversation on blogs, Twitter and Facebook that occurred as President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu met in Washington. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 22, 2011 | |
It was a diverse news week that started off with
the arrest of the IMF chief, but ended with the media focused on strained U.S.-Israel
relations and the problems with the GOP presidential field. Meanwhile,
attention to the aftermath of the bin Laden raid continued to diminish
dramatically.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 19, 2011 | | Many bloggers took a decidedly political view of the death of bin Laden last week while others decided to weigh in on the news of a celebrity marriage breakup. On Twitter, Microsoft’s $8.5 billion purchase of Skype created significant buzz. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 14, 2011 | |
The fallout from the killing of Osama bin Laden
continued to generate the most attention of any story in the mainstream media last
week, though coverage fell off substantially. On cable news, where politics
often dictates news agenda, the level of attention varied widely: CNN devoted
the most attention to the story and Fox gave it the least.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 12, 2011 | |
The death of the al Qaeda
leader drove the social media conversation last week, as bloggers and Facebook
and Twitter users examined numerous themes—ranging from fear to humor—that
emerged in the wake of the May 1 raid that killed the al Qaeda leader.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 8, 2011 | | The killing of Osama bin Laden accounted for more than two-thirds of all news coverage last week as the media spent much of it trying to piece together exactly what happened in that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. And that proved to be an ever-changing and evolving narrative. |
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