I found this chart rather interesting: what topics dominated the news this past week, as determined by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism?
According to Pew:
After being overshadowed by the Fort Hood shootings for several weeks, the year’s two major domestic policy stories—health care and the economy—re-emerged atop the news agenda last week.
But much of the media buzz, particularly in the talk show universe, revolved around the week’s No. 3 story—Sarah Palin’s book tour…..
Given her status as a polarizing public figure, it’s no surprise that Palin’s book tour last week—which included her doing interviews with everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Oprah Winfrey—was a hot topic in the talk show world. Indeed more than one-fifth (21%) of the airtime studied on the 12 cable and radio talk shows in the NCI was devoted to the 2008 GOP vice-presidential candidate, making it the No. 2 story there after health care. By a narrow margin, coverage of her book tour last week (8%) exceeded the attention devoted to her decision to resign as Alaska governor (7% from July 6-12, 2009).
One question: why is Palin supposedly polarizing but Obama is not? Makes no sense to me. It’s just another alternate reality created by what Palin calls “The Lamestream Media” (LSM).
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