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: February 19, 2008 |
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton dominated coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign last week, but in very different ways. While Obama got a big bounce from primary wins, the Clinton campaign was besieged by bad news. Meanwhile, John McCain inched closer to inevitability.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: February 11, 2008 |
The three candidates with the best shot at next occupying the White House all got extensive coverage in the biggest week yet for campaign news. But none of them generated the headlines he or she really wanted. And, once again, Huckabee proved that the reports of his political demise were premature.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: February 4, 2008 |
By generating more coverage than any other candidate last week, and easily outdistancing his GOP rivals, Senator John McCain rode a media narrative of near inevitability last week. Plus, Senator Ted Kennedy becomes a major newsmaker.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 28, 2008 | | With the South Carolina primary as backdrop, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton finished in a near tie in the media derby. But in a nasty week former President Bill Clinton was a bigger newsmaker than any Republican candidate.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 22, 2008 | | The two leading Democrats once again attracted more coverage than any of their GOP rivals in the race for media exposure last week. But the GOP overall tipped the scales in what became a big boost for Mitt Romney, both in Michigan and in the media. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 17, 2008 | The two biggest names in talk radio are telling their listeners how to separate the real conservatives from phonies. And some hosts seemed to “cover” the campaign by becoming part of the story.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 15, 2008 |
John McCain and Hillary Clinton both walked away with crucial New Hampshire victories but the Arizona Republican trailed the New York Democrat badly in the battle for media attention. And why the media treated Mike Huckabee’s third-place finish much differently than John Edwards’.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 6, 2008 | | The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not issue a News Index report this week, but the data is available.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: December 29, 2007 | | The Pew Research Center's Project for
Excellence in Journalism did not publish a full Weekly News Index
report for December 23-28, 2007. PEJ is, however, making the data available. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: December 20, 2007 | | All year long, Hillary Clinton has dominated the
campaign conversation on the talk airwaves. And last week, signs that the Democratic
battle for president might be tightening had many hosts talking up the idea of a
Clinton swoon. Plus, Michael Savage on steroids. (Talking
about them, not taking them.)
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