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: 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 24, 2007 | | Three of the top-10 topics on the cable and
radio talk shows last week directly involved the hosts themselves. They
included an argument over the SCHIP health care program, the debate over U.S. policy in Iraq, and the strange case of Randi
Rhodes.
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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 18, 2007 |
The debut of Fred Thompson as a GOP debater helped make last
week the second-biggest week of the year in the talk show universe for the 2008
presidential campaign. But so did a talk brouhaha over a more tangential topic
involving the debate. Also, conservative Michael Savage lets a conservative
pundit have it.
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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 11, 2007 | | While the rest of the media were focused on
private security contractors in Iraq last week, the cable and radio talk hosts spent their
time continuing to argue over a controversial phrase by Rush Limbaugh. Plus,
another remnant of the Anna Nicole Smith saga makes the top-10 list.
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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 4, 2007 | | Yes, newsmakers like Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton were major topics in
talk media last week. But it was two of the hosts themselves, Rush Limbaugh and
Bill O’Reilly, who inspired some of the most passion.
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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 27, 2007 |
The Simpson arrest and Hillary Clinton’s health care
proposal proved irresistible fodder for the talk show universe last week. Plus,
why some newsmakers—like Dan Rather and Alan Greenspan—got more attention on
talk shows than in the general news coverage.
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