{"id":89137,"date":"2012-04-08T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2012\/04\/08\/pej-news-coverage-index-april-28-2012\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:12:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:12:02","slug":"pej-news-coverage-index-april-28-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2012\/04\/08\/pej-news-coverage-index-april-28-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Win for Romney Makes Campaign Top Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish\u00a0their regular\u00a0news index report this week. Instead, PEJ published<a href=\"\/commentary_backgrounder\/PEJ%27s+Election+Analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> this campaign report<\/a>.\u00a0The NCI data is available <a href=\"\/tables_top_ten_story_data_april_28_2012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;overall-all-5-sectors&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"overall-all-5-sectors\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overall (All 5 Sectors)<\/h3>\n\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Story<\/th>\n<th>Percent of Newshole<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>2012 Presidential Election<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Health Care Debate<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Economy<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Trayvon Martin Shooting<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>DFW Area Tornadoes<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Middle East Unrest<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>VA Beach Navy Jet Crash<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Oikos University Shooting<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Record Mega Millions Lottery<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;newspapers&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"newspapers\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Newspapers<\/h3>\n\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Story<\/th>\n<th>Percent of Newshole<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>2012 Presidential Election<\/td>\n<td>15%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Economy<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Health Care Debate<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Iran\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Education System<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Afghanistan<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>China<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Middle East Unrest<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>SCOTUS Actions<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;online&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"online\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Online<\/h3>\n\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Story<\/th>\n<th>Percent of Newshole<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>2012 Presidential Election<\/td>\n<td>21%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Trayvon Martin Shooting<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Health Care Debate<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Economy<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Middle East Unrest<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>NCAA Basketball Tournament<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Oikos University Shooting<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>DFW Area Tornadoes<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>VA Beach Navy Jet Crash<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;network-tv&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"network-tv\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Network TV<\/h3>\n\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Story<\/th>\n<th>Percent of Newshole<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>2012 Presidential Election<\/td>\n<td>12%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>DFW Area Tornadoes<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Health Care Debate<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Economy<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Record Mega Millions Lottery<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Middle East Unrest<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Oikos University Shooting<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>GSA Head Resigns<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>VA Beach Navy Jet Crash<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;cable-tv&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"cable-tv\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cable TV<\/h3>\n\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Story<\/th>\n<th>Percent of Newshole<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>2012 Presidential Election<\/td>\n<td>34%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Trayvon Martin Shooting<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>VA Beach Navy Jet Crash<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Health Care Debate<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>DFW Area Tornadoes<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Economy<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>North American Leaders&#8217; Summit<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Iran<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Middle East Unrest<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;radio&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"radio\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Radio<\/h3>\n\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Story<\/th>\n<th>Percent of Newshole<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>2012 Presidential Election<\/td>\n<td>31%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Health Care Debate\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Economy<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Trayvon Martin Shooting<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Middle East Unrest\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Augusta National Membership Controversy<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>DFW Area Tornadoes<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>European Economy<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>GSA Head Resigns<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish a news index report this week. 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