[Tracking Numbers]
What The Media's Covering.
A month ago, I started checking Google News for various words and word combinations to see what was getting coverage in the press. This has very little to do with objective reality, but is a fascinating (to me, anyway) index of what's hot and what's not. I'll continue to update this over the coming months as we come in on the election. (For example, I'm tracking potential presidential candidates and their press to see who may be heating up, but it's far too early for it to mean anything.) Here's a first run.
________________________ 4/21_________5/25And just because it caught my eye, a bonus. When I combined "Bush" and "impeach" I got exactly 911 results (down from 1,200 a month ago). Eerie, yes?
Bush + lying ____________4,330 _______4,340
Bush + illegal__________16,000_______40,500
Iraq___________________150,000______129,000
"Gas Prices"____________39,300_______71,300
Republican + corruption__4,760________5,530
Democrat + corruption____2,890________3,640
"health care"___________60,900_______86,300
taxes___________________53,500_______52,300
2 comments:
Despite monthly changes, it's clear Iraq keeps the country in a state of tension, followed by gas prices and health care, then taxes and the illegal Bush.
If that's what the media plans to write most about, it sounds like the minimalist platform a Dem should run on is to alleviate those five woes.
When the number hits 666, buy!
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