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: December 6, 2010 | | There was a significant spike in coverage of the troubled U.S. economy last week as Washington seemed to start tackling some of the key issues more aggressively. And if Julian Assange wasn’t already a household word, the man famous for sharing U.S. secrets generated enormous attention with new revelations.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: December 2, 2010 | | The outrage over new security measures at the nation’s airports ran rampant among bloggers, Tweeters, and YouTube viewers. Phrases like “security theater,” “money making scam” and even an animated reenactment of full body x-rays and pat-downs pervaded social media. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 29, 2010 | | The Pew Research Center's Project for
Excellence in Journalism did not publishing a full Weekly News Index
report for November 22-28, 2010. PEJ is, however, making the data available.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 22, 2010 | The state of the troubled U.S. economy, the old reliable of news stories, was the biggest topic in the news last week. But the media also focused on some new TSA screening techniques that seemed to poke and provoke some travelers. And continued coverage of the midterms focused on new power players in Washington.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 18, 2010 | | News of scientists’ plans to more actively warn of global warming dangers generated a big response from bloggers last week. And on YouTube, the continuing Philip DeFranco phenomenon illustrates the online platform’s power to turn regular folks into video stars. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 15, 2010 | | Three stories topped the news last week—the economy, the aftermath of the 2010 midterms and the president’s trip to Asia—and all three involved narratives that were not positive for President Obama. The week’s other top stories included a cruise gone awry and a former president resurfacing on the media circuit to pitch his new book.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 11, 2010 | | A backlash against columnist David Broder’s suggestions for Obama united bloggers last week
while and Comedy Central’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear got mixed
reviews.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 9, 2010 | | No other event or story generated much attention as the battle for Congress was finally resolved, accounting for more than half of last week’s coverage. Once the voters had spoken, the media pivoted from polls and predictions to post-mortems and projections about the new political landscape. And not surprisingly, President Obama was at the center of the narrative.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 1, 2010 | | Attention to the crucial midterm congressional elections reached new heights last week, accounting for nearly half the overall news coverage. The top stories also included the economy, a new terror plot, the conflict in Afghanistan and fresh revelations about the BP oil disaster that dominated coverage in the summer.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 28, 2010 | | The online rhetoric heated up last week as bloggers from the left and right responded to statements from two controversial GOP figures. On Twitter, users marveled over an unorthodox space launch while on YouTube, the subject of UFOs was front and center. |
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