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    Few Interested in Bonds’ Home Run Record

    Summary of Findings While Barry Bonds’ 756th career home run broke one of baseball’s long standing records, it was a non-event for many Americans. Just 12% followed the story very closely, while a 42% plurality did not follow the story at all closely. Bonds’ record received significantly less public attention than the last home run […]

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    Immigration and Paris Hilton

    Immigration: Did Talk Hosts Kill The Bill? In the midst of the heated Senate debate over the immigration bill, one notable conservative made headlines for lashing out at a conservative-dominated medium. “Talk radio is running America,” complained Mississippi Republican Senator Trent Lott. “We have to deal with that problem.” On June 28—more than 40 days […]

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    Campaign Internet Videos: Viewed More on TV than Online

    Summary of Findings Short videos produced for the internet are becoming an important component of campaign news. In some cases, candidates themselves are producing videos and releasing them on their campaign websites. Candidates also are seeing their own gaffes or embarrassing moments packaged in a brief video and put up on the web for all […]

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    Coverage Differences Among Outlets

    Throughout the entire period examined, print outlets dominated the coverage. The overwhelming majority of stories, 202, came from print outlets. And 82 of the 93 outlets that carried even a single story on PSCs were print. Coverage by Genre Print and Other Outlets Broadcast and cable outlets aired 29 stories in five different outlets. More […]

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    Mine Collapse is Big News But Doesn’t Top the Campaign

    The fate of six miners trapped 1,500 feet underground followed two storylines last week as rescuers rushed against time and the mine company owner took his case to the public. But three presidential debates and the Iowa straw poll pushed the 2008 presidential campaign in the top spot.

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    Online News Sites

    While researchers have studied network news and newspapers for years, the data on news websites, a media about a decade old, is scant. The PEJ Index includes five Internet news sites each day: YahooNews, MSNBC.com, CNN.com, AOLNews, and GoogleNews. (The first four are the top online news sites by traffic.)* In the first three months […]

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    Gender Politics – Talk Show Style

    The Senate slumber party/Iraq strategy showdown made the debate over the war the leading talk show subject last week. But the conversation about the 2008 presidential race, the second most popular topic, was driven by some pretty personal questions about the one woman in the race.

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    Campaign Watchers on the Net

    That’s the percentage of U.S. adults who used the internet during the 2006 midterm election campaigns to get political news and information and to discuss the races through email. And the number of Americans using the internet as their main source of political material doubled since the last mid-term election, rivaling the number from the 2004 presidential election year.

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    Character of the Coverage

    Even when they were covered, PSCs were often tangential aspects of larger stories about other Iraq-related issues or events. Many sprang from U.S. government actions or reports, such as the Washington Post’s April 23, 2005 story “Contractor, Army Office Fell Short” which ran on the front of the financial section.. Another example was USA Today’s […]

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    Methodology

    As a special report for PEJ’s weekly News Coverage Index (NCI), the Quarterly Report is based on the aggregated data collected from December 31, 2006 – March 31, 2007 (the first quarter of 2007). Examining the news agenda of 48 different outlets in five media sectors, including newspapers, online, network TV, cable TV, and radio, […]