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In the second quarter of 2007, the presidential campaign took over center stage. It was the top storyline overall, accounting for 9% of the newshole and edging out any one of the three Iraq story threads. (The Iraq war coverage combined amassed 15% of the newshole this quarter, but campaign coverage supplanted each of the […]
Summary of Findings The 2008 presidential campaign was once again a big story last week with most news coverage devoted to the Republican presidential candidates. While media coverage focused primarily on Republicans, the public directed most of its attention to the Democratic contenders. When asked which candidate they have heard the most about in the […]
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.
The general’s appearance before Congress last week was widely expected to be a pivot point in the political brawl over Iraq war policy. The media swarmed, but the story they told may help explain why David Petraeus’s testimony seemed, for now, to cement the status quo.
PEJ News Coverage Index April 1 – June 29, 2007 All Media Top Stories (Percent of Newshole) 2nd QTR Rank Story All Media 1st QTR 2nd QTR YTD 1 2008 Campaign 7.4% 8.5% 8.0% 2 Events in Iraq* 6.8 6.7 6.7 3 Iraq Policy Debate* 12.4 6.6 9.5 4 Immigration 1.5 5.7 3.6 5 VA […]
PEJ News Coverage Index April 1 – June 29, 2007 Radio Top Stories (Percent of Newshole) 2nd QTR Rank Story All Talk News Headlines NPR’s Morning Edition Overall Talk Conservative Talk Liberal Talk QTR YTD QTR YTD QTR YTD QTR YTD QTR YTD QTR YTD 1 2008 Campaign 10.0 9.7 12.9 13.3 13.0 […]