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: July 2, 2007 | | With the apparent demise of the immigration
reform bill, a major Supreme Court decision on race, and a few natural
disasters, last week was jammed with big news events. But nothing got the media’s
attention like a couple of suspicious cars parked in London.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 28, 2007 | | The race for the White House was easily the most
discussed story on the radio and cable talk shows last week. But the debate
over the hotly contested immigration bill also bubbled over on the airwaves.
And one of the top talk topics even involved a call for more political
diversity along the radio dial.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 25, 2007 | | Was it a tease, a trial balloon, or a trivial
matter? New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision to shed his GOP label sure
had the media buzzing last week. And while dramatic events inside Iraq generated substantial coverage, the policy debate
over the war has slipped onto the press back burner in recent weeks.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 21, 2007 | | The impassioned debate on the talk airwaves
wouldn’t go away last week as the once-imperiled immigration bill appeared to
get a new life. And that had some conservative hosts putting former GOP allies
on their enemies list. The talkers were also more interested in HBO’s gang wars
than the Hamas-Fatah battles.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 18, 2007 | | It took Presidential intervention, but the
changing fortunes of the controversial immigration reform legislation was the leading story last week. Still, U.S. domestic politics were almost overshadowed violence in the Mideast. And why did the ending of a cable series
make the nightly news?
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 14, 2007 |
The race for the White House was the most popular talk show
story last week and Paris Hilton’s unscheduled release from jail was also a hot
topic. But the big news may have been the Senate’s failure to pass an immigration
measure, an event that seemed like a victory for a number of talk hosts.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 11, 2007 |
The biggest stories last week were driven by Republican and
Democratic presidential debates, the apparent defeat of the compromise
immigration bill, and an increasing war of words between the United
States and Russia.
But the tale of one celebrity’s interrupted incarceration generated a lot of
late-week coverage.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 7, 2007 | | The cable and radio talk shows were buzzing
about Hillary Clinton, Fred Thompson, and even Michelle Obama last week. And
they were still on the offensive on the new immigration bill. But for all its
many angles, the saga of the young tuberculosis-infected lawyer attracted only
tepid interest.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 4, 2007 | | There was a grim milestone for U.S. troops in Iraq and one potential GOP presidential hopeful moved
closer to making it official. But the biggest news last week was an
international medical mystery with more plot twists than a novel and
potentially serious implications for the nation’s security in an era of
daunting man-made and natural threats.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 31, 2007 | The debates over immigration policy and Iraq war strategy were the most popular topics on cable and radio talk shows last week. The 2008 presidential race also attracted lots of attention, again. But two nasty political tiffs got on the talkers’ radar screen as well.
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