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Aug 02, 2012 - In the final two weeks of July, Americans kept a close watch on news about a deadly shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater, but they also closely tracked news about two long-running stories – the condition of the nation’s economy and the 2012 presidential campaign.
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Jun 12, 2012 - The stories followed most closely last week were the U.S. economy and 2012 elections. Americans paid less attention to news about European economic troubles and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's victory in a hard-fought recall election. More Republicans than Democrats or independents followed the Wisconsin story closely.
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Jun 06, 2012 - Public interest in foreign news -- from the economic troubles in Europe to the Syrian massacre of citizens -- has remained low since the beginning of the year.
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Jun 04, 2012 - Americans continued to follow news about the presidential campaign more closely than any other news last week, though they also closely followed news about the price of gasoline.
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May 22, 2012 - Americans focused most closely last week on news about the presidential election, as the race increasingly shifted from the Republican primary contest to the head-to-head fight between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
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May 15, 2012 - President Obama’s expression of support for same-sex marriage proved to be the public’s top news story last week. Obama’s comments -- and their possible impact on the presidential race -- also were among the week’s most-covered stories.
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May 09, 2012 - Americans followed news about the nation's economy more closely than any other stories last week amid new signs the pace of the recovery has slowed. The second most closely followed story was news about the 2012 presidential election.
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May 01, 2012 - Developments in the Trayvon Martin murder case and news about the candidates for president topped the public’s news interest last week, with about as many saying they followed news about the economy most closely.
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Apr 24, 2012 - Developments in the case against George Zimmerman, the man charged in the killing of Trayvon Martin topped Americans' news interest last week. About a quarter of the public (26%) says they followed developments in the case more closely than any other news. Coverage, though, dropped to 7% of the newshole from 17% the previous week, when Zimmerman was charged with second degree murder.
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Apr 10, 2012 - According to the latest weekly News Interest Index survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, most Americans continue to say they are hearing a mix of good and bad news about the nation’s economy, though the percentage hearing mostly bad news has ticked up since last month.
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Apr 03, 2012 - The Trayvon Martin shooting is the public's top story for the second consecutive week. But interest in the teenager's death is deeply divided along partisan, as well as racial, lines. Far more Republicans than Democrats say there has been too much coverage of Martin's death. African Americans are far more likely than whites to say they are closely tracking news about the Florida teenager's death.
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Mar 21, 2012 - Rising fuel prices topped the public’s news interest last week as the average cost of gasoline neared $4.00 a gallon. About half said they followed news about rising gas and oil prices very closely. While these numbers were similar to those last spring, another time of concern about fuel prices, they were well below the high for this measure recorded shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005.
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Mar 16, 2012 - The presidential campaign again proved to be the top story for the public and the media last week because of the Super Tuesday primary and caucus contests. Overall public interest is comparable to most previous primary election cycles, but well below the high mark set four years ago when there were presidential nomination battles in both parties.
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Mar 06, 2012 - Election news continued to be the public’s top story last week, just ahead of the March 6 Super Tuesday voting. About two-in-ten (22%) said they followed news about the candidates for president more closely than any other news. Somewhat fewer (17%) cited the tornadoes that hit parts of the Midwest.
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Feb 28, 2012 - About a quarter of the public said news regarding the 2012 presidential candidates was their top story last week, and nearly as many said they followed news about the economy most closely. News about controversies over social issues, such as gay marriage and health care coverage for contraception, ranked a distant third.
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Feb 22, 2012 - Nearly two-in-ten Americans said the sudden death of singer Whitney Houston was their top story last week, followed closely by news about the presidential campaign and the economy. Mitt Romney continues to be the most visible GOP candidate among the general public, but Rick Santorum is closing that gap among Republicans.
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Feb 14, 2012 - Rick Santorum’s recent electoral wins may have propelled him to the top of the Republican field, but by a better than two-to-one margin, Mitt Romney remains the Republican candidate Americans say they heard about most in the news last week.
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Jan 31, 2012 - Political stories topped the public's news interest last week, with about two-in-ten Americans saying they had followed the presidential campaign closely. Almost as many cited President Obama's State of the Union address as the top story. For Republicans, the GOP contest for the party's nomination was by far the top story; Democrats paid more attention to Obama's address to Congress.
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Jan 24, 2012 - The deadly cruise ship crash off the coast of Italy and coverage on the 2012 presidential campaign topped the public's news interests last week. But for young people, the protests by popular websites against proposed online piracy legislation was a top story.
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Jan 11, 2012 - The number of Americans hearing mostly bad news about the nation's economy continues to decline. Three-in-ten now say they are hearing mostly bad economic news, less than half the number that said this in early August. When it comes to political news, nearly four-in-ten Americans say the 2012 campaign has received too much coverage.
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Jan 04, 2012 - Rick Santorum's surge to finish in a virtual tie for first with Mitt Romney in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses may have benefited from the narrative in the news media. The subject of momentum was the biggest component of the coverage in the last two weeks before Iowa citizens voted.
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Dec 21, 2011 - The threat of nuclear disaster in Japan and the killing of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALS were two of the breaking news stories that captured the greatest amount of public attention in 2011. But Americans also kept a steady watch on the economy at home. More than half said they followed news about rising fuel prices very closely in April, while the struggling economy remained a top story throughout the year.
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Dec 13, 2011 - The latest allegations in the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State University rivaled news about the 2012 elections and the economy for the public’s attention last week.
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Dec 07, 2011 - The number of Americans hearing mostly bad news about the economy has fallen 12 points over the past month and 31 points since fears of a new recession intensified in August. Currently, 56% say the news they are hearing about the economy is a mix of good and bad, while 36% say the news is mostly bad.
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Nov 22, 2011 - Few Americans paid close attention to news about the congressional “super committee” last week as the panel approached its deadline to agree on a plan to cut the federal deficit. Most panel members had indicated a deal was unlikely, and that turned out to be the case this week. The most closely followed story for the second week in a row was the Penn State scandal.
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Nov 15, 2011 - The public’s perceptions of economic news, which took a decided downturn in August, are much less negative today. Currently, 48% say they are hearing mostly bad news about the economy, down from 67% in August. While Americans continue to closely track economic news, most said the Penn State scandal was last week's top story.
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Nov 09, 2011 - Public interest in the presidential campaign showed no increase this week, despite the news media’s increasing coverage of sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain.
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Nov 02, 2011 - A combination of intertwined economic and political stories topped the public’s news interest last week.
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Oct 26, 2011 - Americans divided their attention last week among several breaking news stories – from the death of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya to the release of dozens of dangerous wild animals in Ohio to the announced withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq– while still keeping a close watch on news about the nation’s economy.
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Oct 19, 2011 - The public focused most closely last week on two interrelated news stories – the nation’s struggling economy and the anti-Wall Street protests that have now spread far beyond their beginnings in New York City.
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Oct 12, 2011 - Americans continued to closely track news about the nation’s struggling economy last week, and paid only modest attention to a fast-growing media story – the anti-Wall Street protests in New York and other cities.
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Oct 05, 2011 - Public interest in the campaign remains as high today as it was at this point in 2007, when there were contested races in both parties. However in the one contested presidential nomination race this year, smaller percentages of Americans can name the leading GOP candidates than in previous Republican races.
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Sep 28, 2011 - Three-in-ten Americans say they followed news about the condition of the U.S. economy more closely than any other news last week. Another 10% followed the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia most closely, with African-Americans paying the most attention.
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Sep 21, 2011 - Nearly a quarter of the public says they followed the back and forth over President Obama’s jobs proposal more closely than any other news last week, making the economy the top story when it came to public news interest.
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Sep 13, 2011 - The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks topped the public’s news interest last week, but Americans also continued to closely track news about the nation’s economy. In the GOP presidential race, Rick Perry is the Republican candidate about whom they have heard the most.
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Sep 07, 2011 - The aftermath of Hurricane Irene was the top story for the public and the media last week, as flooding worsened in many East Coast states well after the storm winds had died down.
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Aug 30, 2011 - Hurricane Irene was the public’s top news story last week in a busy seven days that included an unusual East Coast earthquake and major developments in Libya.
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Aug 23, 2011 - Americans focused most closely last week on news about the nation’s troubled economy amid concerns about the stalled recovery and fears of a new recession.
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Aug 17, 2011 - News about the crash of a military helicopter in Afghanistan that killed 30 Americans last week refocused public attention on the long-running war there. Many say the week's economic news made them angry.
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Aug 10, 2011 - About two-thirds of Americans say they are hearing mostly "bad news" about the economy, driving that number to its highest level in more than two years.
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Aug 02, 2011 - The negotiations over legislation to cut the federal deficit and raise the nation’s debt limit eclipsed other stories last week when it came to commanding the attention of news consumers, with 40% saying they followed developments about the debt debate more closely than any other news.
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Jul 27, 2011 - The debt limit was the top story last week for both the public and the news media, although public interest in the federal budget deficit and national debt is not much higher than it was the previous week despite the approaching Aug. 2 deadline for raising the ceiling.
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Jul 19, 2011 - An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that the debate over the nation's debt limit is important to people like themselves, while nearly seven-in-ten say it is interesting.
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Jul 13, 2011 - Americans followed news about the verdict in the Casey Anthony murder trial more closely than other top stories, but they also kept a watch on news about the struggling economy and talks in Washington over raising the federal debt limit.
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Jul 07, 2011 - While the focus has been on the GOP's race, Democrats express about as much interest in 2012 presidential candidates as do Republicans.
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Jun 29, 2011 - Americans focused most on news about the struggling economy and Obama's plans to draw down troops in Afghanistan, stories that also topped news coverage.
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Jun 22, 2011 - Mitt Romney is clearly the candidate the public says they are hearing the most news about, while mentions of Sarah Palin have plummeted over the past two weeks.
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Jun 15, 2011 - Solid majorities say news organizations are giving too much attention to the scandal involving the Democratic lawmaker and the former governor's bus tour.
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Jun 08, 2011 - Not since March 2009 have so many Americans been hearing mostly bad news about the nation's economy. Romney and Palin are now the most visible GOP candidates.
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Jun 01, 2011 - The devastating tornadoes that struck Missouri last week dominated the public's news interest. Also, 73% say they heard at least a little about the end of Oprah's talk show.
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May 25, 2011 - Americans continued to express strong interest in news about the death of Osama bin Laden and its ramifications last week, even as news coverage of the story continued to decline.
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May 18, 2011 - Public interest in the killing of Osama bin Laden has declined since the week U.S. forces raided his compound in Pakistan. But news coverage of bin Laden’s death has fallen more precipitously.
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May 11, 2011 - While the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by U.S. military forces attracted a near-record amount of news coverage, public interest in the story has been comparatively modest.
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May 03, 2011 - Majorities of Americans say news organizations focused too much last week on both the royal wedding in England and the release of the long-form version of Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
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Apr 27, 2011 - The public has expressed modest interest in the run-up to the royal wedding. And while news coverage of the royal wedding is now ramping up, nearly two-thirds of the public (64%) say they think it has gotten too much coverage.
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Apr 20, 2011 - Donald Trump has drawn a lot of attention in a slow-starting race for the GOP nomination. Roughly a quarter of all Americans (26%) name Trump as the possible Republican presidential candidate they have heard most about lately, far more than volunteer any other candidate.
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Apr 12, 2011 - The public divided its attention between the threat of a government shutdown and the ongoing crisis in Japan (a story with just one-fourth of the coverage given the shutdown).
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Apr 06, 2011 - While the public hears better news about jobs and the economy, news received about gas and other prices is increasingly negative. Japan still dominates news interest.
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Mar 30, 2011 - Despite heavy media coverage of Libya, the public kept their focus on Japan. Americans give the press high marks for international coverage, but little praise for domestic.
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Mar 22, 2011 - The crisis at Japan's nuclear plants--far more than other aspects--captured the most public interest. Many donations to relief efforts made online or by text message.
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Mar 15, 2011 - The devastating earthquake and tsunami pushed aside earlier interest in the Libya conflict and the confrontation over public employee bargaining rights in Wisconsin.
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Mar 08, 2011 - A growing awareness of bad news about fuel prices has, at least for now, reversed Americans' more positive perceptions of economic news in recent months.
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Mar 02, 2011 - With the media fixated on Libya, the public focused equally on a related concern--rising oil prices--along with union disputes in the Midwest and the economy generally.
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Feb 23, 2011 - As the media turned to domestic debates about the economy, the public continued to follow Egypt more closely than any other news story.
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Feb 16, 2011 - Fully 48% followed news about Egypt more closely than any other story. The 2012 campaign -- in both news coverage and interest -- has gotten off to a slow start.
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Feb 09, 2011 - Interest in news about the protests in Egypt surged last week, but did not keep pace with media coverage. About as many followed news of a big winter storm.
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Feb 01, 2011 - Aftermath of the Arizona shootings drew more than three times the public attention that unrest in the Middle East did despite heavy media coverage.
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Jan 26, 2011 - The Tucson shootings stayed at the top of the public's attention, eclipsing the visit by China's president. Most heard about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' medical leave.
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Jan 18, 2011 - Among those who heard about the president's memorial speech, 69% said the address was excellent or good. The response to Palin's comments proved more mixed.
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Jan 12, 2011 - Until the Arizona shootings, the economy, not Congress, was the public's main focus -- with the fewest number since 2008 now calling economic news mostly bad.
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Dec 30, 2010 - The 9/11 terrorist attacks drew more public interest than any other story in the past decade. In October 2001, a month after the attacks, 78% said they were following news about the story very closely, up slightly from the week after the attacks (74%).
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Dec 21, 2010 - Two major disasters – the earthquake in Haiti and the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico – captured the public’s attention more than any other major stories in 2010, but Americans also kept a consistent eye on the nation’s struggling economy.
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Dec 14, 2010 - Americans closely tracked news last week about the agreement between President Obama and Republican congressional leaders to temporarily extend Bush-era tax cuts, aid for the unemployed and certain tax breaks intended to help the struggling economy.
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Dec 08, 2010 - Most Americans following news about the WikiLeaks website’s release of a huge trove of classified documents about U.S. diplomatic relations see the revelations – which have received extensive media coverage – doing more harm than good.
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Nov 24, 2010 - News about the economy topped the public’s news interest last week, though many Americans also closely tracked the fallout from the midterm elections and the debate over enhanced security measures at the nation’s airports.
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Nov 17, 2010 - A stranded Carnival cruise ship vied for the public's attention, while most say they heard at least a little about new graphic warning labels for cigarettes.
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Nov 10, 2010 - Among those who followed election results on the night of the vote, 91% did so on television while 16% tracked returns on the internet.
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Nov 03, 2010 - Both the public and the media focused most closely last week on the congressional elections as Tuesday’s midterm vote approached. Still, the public’s interest in election news did not increase in the final days of the campaign, despite heavy news coverage.
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Oct 27, 2010 - The public gives mixed ratings to the media on coverage of the midterms; also, by a 48%-to-33% margin, more say the GOP will gain control of the House.
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Oct 20, 2010 - Reflecting today’s fragmented news landscape, about half of the public offers no specific answer when asked to name the journalist or newsperson they most admire. No journalist is named by more than 5% of the public in response to an open-ended question.
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Oct 14, 2010 - The 2010 congressional elections dominated news coverage last week, but not the public’s attention. Americans continued to focus most closely on news about the nation’s struggling economy and about four-in-ten (39%) say news reports portray the economy “about the way it really is.”
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Oct 07, 2010 - The 2010 congressional elections dominated news coverage last week, but not the public’s attention. Americans continued to focus most closely on news about the nation’s struggling economy and about four-in-ten (39%) say news reports portray the economy “about the way it really is.”
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Sep 29, 2010 - While the 2010 midterm congressional elections dominated media coverage last week, the public focused more on news about the nation’s struggling economy.
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Sep 22, 2010 - About two-thirds of the public sees coverage of this year’s elections as focused primarily on strategy and conflict rather than candidate positions, while a comparable percentage says the 2010 congressional elections are more important than most.
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Sep 15, 2010 - As the nation marked the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks last week, many in the public and the media focused more on current tensions over Islam in America – most notably plans by a Florida pastor to burn copies of the Koran.
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Sep 09, 2010 - The public's perceptions of economic news remain mixed, but continue to be much more negative than they were earlier this year.
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Sep 01, 2010 - No one story dominated the public’s news interest last week, as several story lines – including the debate over a mosque near Ground Zero in New York and the recall of hundreds of millions of eggs – vied for Americans’ attention.
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Aug 25, 2010 - While the media focused on the emotionally-charged debate over plans to build an Islamic mosque and cultural center near the World Trade Center site in New York City last week, the public continued to track the Gulf oil leak.
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Aug 19, 2010 - In evaluating news coverage of different groups, pluralities of Americans say that coverage of poor people and Muslims is too negative, while somewhat smaller percentages say the same about coverage of blacks and Hispanics.
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Aug 10, 2010 - In the days following BP’s latest—and apparently successful—effort to seal the oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, public perceptions of news about the spill have become somewhat more positive.
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Aug 03, 2010 - The disclosure of 75,000 classified documents about the war in Afghanistan by the website WikiLeaks garnered significant media coverage last week, and those familiar with the story were split over the effect of the leak: about equal percentages say the release harms the public interest as say it serves the public interest.
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Jul 28, 2010 - The controversy surrounding the firing of U.S. Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod attracted widespread attention from the news media last week and was the dominant story on cable news networks. The public, however, showed modest interest in the Sherrod affair and, as has been the case since early May, the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico was by far the public’s most closely followed news story.
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Jul 21, 2010 - Amid reports that BP has been able to at least temporarily stem the flow of oil from its ruptured underwater well, the public and the media last week again focused on the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Jul 14, 2010 - As the public continues to closely track news about the environmental disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, few Americans say news organization are giving the oil leak too much coverage.
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Jul 08, 2010 - Public perceptions of economic news have turned much more negative. Currently, 42% say they are hearing mostly bad news about the economy, the highest percentage in a year. Last month, 30% of the public said they were hearing mostly bad news about the economy.
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Jun 30, 2010 - The public remained focused on the unfolding environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico last week, while the media divided its attention between two top stories: the oil leak and controversial comments by Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to his ouster as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
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Jun 23, 2010 - While the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico has accounted for an overwhelming proportion of recent news coverage, most Americans say the press is giving the right amount of attention to the still-unfolding disaster.
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Jun 16, 2010 - News about the economy has been overshadowed by the Gulf oil leak in recent weeks. And in the public’s view, the economic news has not improved.
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Jun 10, 2010 - The public expresses far more trust in the news media for information about the Gulf oil leak than it does in either the federal government or BP.
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Jun 08, 2010 - The public increasingly sees Barack Obama’s policies as having an impact on economic conditions and, for the first time, slightly more say the impact has been negative rather than positive.
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Jun 03, 2010 - As efforts to stop a major underwater oil leak faltered and President Obama traveled to Louisiana to assess the early damage, the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico grabbed public attention and dominated media coverage last week.
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May 28, 2010 - Americans stayed focused on the unfolding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week, while the effort to cap the underwater well and limit the damage was one of two stories that dominated media coverage.
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May 20, 2010 - As oil from an undersea well continued to flow into the Gulf of Mexico last week, Americans tracked the worsening environmental disaster much more closely than any other major news story.
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May 12, 2010 - Americans tracked the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico more closely than other major news stories last week, while the media focused on both the underwater oil leak and the investigation into the attempted car bombing in New York’s Times Square.
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May 05, 2010 - As a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico spread toward the Louisiana coastline last week, the public focused on the unfolding story of a potential environmental disaster.
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Apr 28, 2010 - The public and the media focused on economic issues last week, with 24% of Americans saying they followed news about the economy more closely than other major stories.
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Apr 22, 2010 - Americans say they followed news about the new health care law more closely than any other major story last week, but many also kept a close watch on the economy and the ash-spewing volcano in Iceland that disrupted international air travel.
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Apr 14, 2010 - Americans continued to track news about the new health care law more closely than any other major story last week, though the media devoted the most attention to the deadly explosion in a West Virginia coal mine—and just 3% of coverage to health care reform.
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Apr 07, 2010 - Americans say they tracked news about the newly enacted health care reform law more closely than other major news stories last week, though the health care debate did not dominate coverage as it had during the final votes in Congress late last month.
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Mar 31, 2010 - The long-running debate over health care reform continued to dominate public attention and media coverage last week as the final skirmishes played out on Capitol Hill and President Obama set out to promote the newly-enacted law.
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Mar 23, 2010 - Americans closely tracked the final stages of the long-running debate over health care reform legislation last week as the story dominated media coverage. More than half (53%) of the public says the debate was the story they followed most closely, while the story was the focus of 37% of news coverage.
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Mar 17, 2010 - As President Obama and Democratic leaders mounted what was characterized as the final push to pass health care reform legislation last week, the public followed the health care debate more closely than any other major story (33% say they followed this story most closely).
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Mar 10, 2010 - As Americans continue to track the debate over health care reform closely, a growing minority – now 39% – says they think health care legislation will pass this year. Just before the Feb. 25 bipartisan summit at the White House to discuss the stymied legislation, 27% said they thought a bill would pass in 2010.
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Mar 03, 2010 - Americans say the two news stories they followed most closely last week were the reinvigorated debate over health care reform in Washington and the second week of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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Feb 24, 2010 - Americans say they followed news about the Winter Olympics in Vancouver more closely than any other major news story last week. The Olympics also proved to be one of two stories people talked about most frequently with friends. The other was Tiger Woods’ televised apology.
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Feb 17, 2010 - Americans say they tracked the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti more closely than any other major news story last week, but they also kept a close watch on news about the U.S. economy and the powerful snow storms that hit the nation’s East Coast and South.
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Feb 11, 2010 - Americans continue to closely track news about the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti and the U.S. economy, paying less close attention to the fast-evolving story about serious safety problems with Toyota automobiles. Still, the public is quite laudatory of press coverage of the automaker’s problems.
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Feb 04, 2010 - In a week when the media focused heavily on Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address and the state of the economy, Americans continued to track news about the earthquake in Haiti more closely than any other major news story.
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Jan 26, 2010 - Americans tracked the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti more closely than any other major news last week, but also kept a close watch on two intertwined stories: the fate of health care legislation in Washington and the outcome of last week’s special election for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.
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Jan 20, 2010 - Americans have been highly focused on the massive earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12. Not only is the disaster clearly the public’s top news story, but fully 70% say it is the story they are talking about with friends.
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Jan 13, 2010 - The public and the media went their own ways on the news last week. The media kept up heavy coverage of the aftermath of the attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound jet on Christmas Day, while the public focused most closely on the health care debate in Washington.
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Dec 29, 2009 - According to the Pew Research Center, the media's top stories generally reflected the public's top interests, but coverage of politics (Kennedy's death, Palin's book, Specter's switch) exceeded the public's willingness to follow.
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Dec 22, 2009 - Americans continued to follow the health care debate more closely than any other news story last week, and the public sees the odds of a reform bill ultimately being passed increasing.
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Dec 16, 2009 - Americans followed the health care debate more closely than any other news story last week as Senate Democrats struggled to find a compromise that would allow them to move legislation through their chamber despite strong Republican opposition.
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Dec 10, 2009 - The public took a renewed interest in the war in Afghanistan last week as President Obama unveiled plans to send more troops there while vowing to start bringing them home in 2011. Still, as many people say they talked with friends about Tiger Woods’ troubles as Afghanistan.
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Nov 25, 2009 - The debate over health care reform dominated the public’s news interests last week, even as other stories – including the furor over new mammogram guidelines and Sarah Palin’s book tour – vied for the news media’s attention.
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Nov 19, 2009 - The debate over health care reform was the news story followed most closely by the American public last week, though the media devoted more coverage to the investigation into the shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army base.
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Nov 11, 2009 - Public interest in the Fort Hood shootings is on par with the Virginia Tech tragedy. Despite media coverage, election results don't generate much interest.
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Nov 05, 2009 - For the second week in a row, Americans followed news about the swine flu and its vaccine more closely than any other news story – with public interest outpacing the amount of national media coverage devoted to the story.
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Oct 29, 2009 - More see Fox News as conservative than see other TV news networks as liberal. Swine flu and and errant Northwest flight grab the public's attention.
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Oct 22, 2009 - Most Americans are unable to correctly estimate the number of U.S. fatalities in Afghanistan. There also has been a sharp increase in the proportion of Americans saying they expect a health care reform bill to pass over the next year.
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Oct 15, 2009 - As the first vials of swine flu vaccine make their way into American communities, public interest in news about the disease is increasing.
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Oct 08, 2009 - Health care has been the public's top story for weeks, and few say it has received too much media coverage. But a large majority still finds the topic hard to understand.
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Sep 30, 2009 - The first week of fall brought little change to the public's news agenda with the debate over health care reform continuing to top public interest. However, the news media play much less of a role in shaping views of health care reform and the economy – where personal experiences are an important factor – than they do on environmental issues and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Sep 23, 2009 - The number of Americans hearing "too much" about the president has not increased during his push for health care. The ACORN scandal has a highly partisan audience.
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Sep 16, 2009 - With public and media attention focused on President Obama’s Sept. 9 health care address to a joint session of Congress, Americans overwhelmingly cited the health care debate as their top story of the week. And when asked to evaluate the tone of the health care debate, a majority says it has been rude and disrespectful.
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Sep 08, 2009 - Interest in the health care reform debate has remained extremely high throughout the summer and more than nine-in-ten Americans say the issue is important to them. Still, despite the public focus on health care news, two thirds continue to say the issue is hard to understand.
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Sep 03, 2009 - In a busy late summer news stretch, Americans continued to track news about the health care debate more closely than other major stories last week. The economy, the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and the strange case of a California woman rescued from long-time captors also vied for the public’s attention.
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Aug 26, 2009 - Despite the emergence of several major international stories – including an election in war-ravaged Afghanistan and the release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber, the public continued to be focused on domestic news – particularly the ongoing debate over health care reform.
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Aug 20, 2009 - Public interest in health care reform shows no signs of slackening, with news about the debate continuing to top the public’s news agenda.
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Aug 12, 2009 - News about the economy and the debate over health care reform continue to dominate public attention. A growing proportion of Americans say they are hearing mostly good news about the economy, while the percentage saying the news is mostly bad has fallen since July. On health care, protests at contentious town hall meetings with lawmakers are drawing widespread attention.
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Aug 06, 2009 - As the fight in Washington over health care reform continues to dominate public attention and media coverage, most Americans are critical of the way news organizations are explaining key elements of the debate.
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Jul 30, 2009 - The debate over health care reform has become the public's top story. The Gates controversy draws more interest than other recent stories about race.
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Jul 22, 2009 - The debate over revamping the nation’s health care system is drawing increased public attention. A third (33%) say they are following the health care debate very closely, up from 24% the previous week.
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Jul 15, 2009 - The death of pop star Michael Jackson continued to grab public attention last week, with Americans saying it was the story they followed most closely for the third straight week. Moreover, Jackson’s death was by far the week’s most talked about news story.
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Jul 08, 2009 - Michael Jackson's death again most closely followed story.
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Jul 01, 2009 - The 'King of Pop' topped news interest, but nearly two in three said Jackson's death got too much coverage.
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Jun 24, 2009 - In recent days, Americans tracked news about post-election protests in Tehran nearly as closely as they followed news about the troubled U.S. economy, a relatively high level of interest for an international news story not involving U.S. troops or citizens.
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Jun 17, 2009 - Americans by a wide margin say they are hearing mostly negative news about the nation’s job situation, though they are more likely to sense a mix of good and bad news about other elements of the economy.
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Jun 11, 2009 - Americans divided their attention among several major stories last week as President Obama reached out to the Muslim world in a major speech, a jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean and General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection. At the same time, they continued to keep a close watch on news about the troubles facing the U.S. economy.
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Jun 04, 2009 - Though many are still learning about the nominee, responses indicate biography may be her strongest asset.
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May 28, 2009 - Americans continued to closely track news about the struggling economy and the spread of the swine flu last week, though the media devoted the largest share of coverage to the sharp debate in Washington over how best to protect the nation from terrorism.
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May 20, 2009 - Americans followed reports about the U.S. economy more closely than other major stories last week as President Obama pushed for new restrictions on the credit card industry and automakers announced plans to cut ties with some 1,900 dealerships nationwide.
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May 13, 2009 - Most Americans say they are hearing a mix of good and bad news about the U.S. economy, a stark change from the start of the year when a sizable majority said they were hearing mostly bad economic news.
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May 06, 2009 - Americans tracked news about the fast-moving swine flu virus more closely than any other story last week, with most turning to television for details on its spread. Still, when people were asked to name which information source was most useful, the largest share chose the Internet.
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Apr 29, 2009 - Most Americans say that the news media has devoted too much coverage to Barack Obama’s family and personal life during his first months as president, but the right amount of coverage to his leadership style and his policy proposals.
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Apr 22, 2009 - Top newsmakers included an allegedly murderous Sunday school teacher, a highly placed dog, a startling new singing sensation and a retiring sportscaster.
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Apr 15, 2009 - The proportion of Americans saying they are hearing a mix of good and bad news about the economy – rather than mostly bad news – continues to steadily increase.
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Apr 08, 2009 - Americans tracked President Obama’s first European trip more closely than other major news stories last week and much more closely than George W. Bush’s first year international summit travels in 2001.
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Apr 02, 2009 - In contrast to the campaign, only a third say they are hearing too much about Obama. However, there are wide partisan differences on perceptions of his media coverage.
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Mar 25, 2009 - Most Americans found the media attention the AIG bonuses received appropriate and a majority supports Congress' plan for a heavy tax on the bonuses.
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Mar 18, 2009 - After months of bleak economic news, an increasing proportion of Americans now say they are hearing a mix of good and bad economic news, while fewer say they are hearing mostly bad news.
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Mar 12, 2009 - According to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, fewer than half of Americans say losing their local paper would hurt civic life a great deal; even fewer say they would miss reading it a lot.
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Mar 05, 2009 - With Americans closely tracking news about the struggling economy, most are aware of the impact the recession is having on state and local budgets and the burgeoning federal deficit.
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Feb 26, 2009 - One month into President Obama’s administration, nearly half (47%) of Americans says the government is on the right track in the way it is handling economic problems, while about a third (34%) says it is on the wrong track.
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Feb 19, 2009 - Americans feel better knowing what's going on, but more now see some good sides to news about the economy.
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Feb 11, 2009 - Many Americans say they want more information about specifics of the stimulus proposals. By contrast, most Americans say the press went too far in coverage of Michael Phelps and the California woman who gave birth to octuplets.
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Feb 04, 2009 - The public focused much more on President Obama’s major policy proposals and decisions than on lighter, more personal stories about the new president and his family in the early days of his administration.
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Jan 28, 2009 - The public paid very close attention to the inauguration of Barack Obama as president last week, while keeping a close eye on the nation’s troubled economy. More than four-in-ten Americans say the inauguration of the nation’s first black president was the news story they followed most closely.
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Jan 23, 2009 - Americans last week followed the dramatic emergency landing of US Airways flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River as closely as they followed news about the nation’s number one problem: the troubled economy.
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Jan 15, 2009 - Public awareness of Barack Obama’s choices for cabinet and other high level posts is substantially higher than awareness of the top picks by George W. Bush and Bill Clinton just before they were first inaugurated, according to the Pew Research Center’s weekly News Interest Index survey.
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Jan 08, 2009 - Public interest in the Middle East conflict is on par with other recent foreign news stories, but is lower than in the Israel-Hezbollah war in August 2006. A slightly greater percentage say the media have not been critical enough of Hamas than say the same about coverage of Israel (30% vs. 25%, respectively).
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Dec 23, 2008 - The Internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news. While the 2008 presidential campaign attracted high levels of public attention, the economy was the top story of the year in terms of news interest, according to the Pew Research Center’s Weekly News Interest Index
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Dec 18, 2008 - The arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich last week on corruption charges drew public interest at levels rivaling or topping most national political scandals of the past few years.
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Dec 11, 2008 - A majority of Americans says news stories about the incoming administration are mostly positive. Republicans are hearing more mixed reports. The public, however, focused even more closely on (negative) economic news.
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Nov 25, 2008 - In addition to following the major economic headlines last week, the public tuned into news about the Obama transition.
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Nov 20, 2008 - With the presidential election behind them, Americans have turned their attention back to the nation’s economy, though nearly half say they feel angry when seeing or hearing such reports.
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Nov 12, 2008 - The 2008 campaign set records for interest and will long be remembered, but fully 82% of Americans will have no problem taking election news out of their lives, according to the Pew Research Center’s weekly News Interest Index. Also, Bill O’Reilly comes in as American’s favorite – and least favorite – campaign commentator.
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Nov 06, 2008 - Fully 60% of voters followed campaign news very closely this weekend, the highest level of interest on the eve of an election since the Pew Research Center began tracking campaign news interest in 1988. Throughout the campaign, Americans said they were hearing more about Obama than about McCain, although analysis shows news coverage became closely balanced between the two candidates.
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Oct 29, 2008 - Many Americans say they are hearing too much about Barack Obama in these final days of the 2008 presidential election – just as they did last summer – but a similar percentage now says the same about Sarah Palin.
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Oct 22, 2008 - By a margin of 70%-9%, voters say most journalists want to see Obama, not McCain, win on Nov. 4. Since 1992, voters have consistently believed the media favor the Democratic candidate, but this year's margin is especially wide.
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Oct 16, 2008 - With less than three weeks to go before the election, there is a growing sense among the public that the tone of the presidential campaign has changed. According to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, a majority of Americans (55%) now say that the campaign is too negative.
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Oct 09, 2008 - Strong majorities of the public say the press has been fair to John McCain, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. But fewer than four-in-ten say the press has been fair to Sarah Palin.
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Oct 01, 2008 - According to the Pew Research Center, interest in news about the U.S. economy skyrocketed last week, with 70% of Americans following economic developments very closely, up from 56% the previous week.
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Sep 25, 2008 - Independents' views of McCain have become significantly less favorable in the last few days, but they still expect him to win the coming foreign policy debate.
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Sep 18, 2008 - Sarah Palin continued to be a dominant factor in presidential campaign coverage last week, but her impact on the race remains unclear and her public image is very much in flux.
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Sep 10, 2008 - While the GOP ticket leader's speech received only modest reviews, his running mate's address was viewed as the highlight of the Republican convention and helped boost McCain's public image overall. However, many in the public still question Palin's qualifications.
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Sep 03, 2008 - Interest in the presidential election surged last week, with the public following campaign news more closely than at any point since the Super Tuesday primaries in February. As attention to the campaign has increased, the images of both Barack Obama and John McCain have improved in recent days, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Aug 27, 2008 - As Barack Obama prepares to accept the Democratic Party's nomination for president and frame his campaign message for the fall, many Americans still do not have a clear understanding of where he stands on the issues.
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Aug 21, 2008 - The upcoming Democratic National Convention is generating much more public interest than did the party's convention four years ago. Also, the public was highly attentive to the ongoing military conflict between Russia and the Republic of Georgia.
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Aug 14, 2008 - According to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, most say they are watching at least some of the Olympic coverage and the share saying it was a good decision to hold the games in China has risen 11 points to a 52% majority. Americans also remain optimistic that by the end of the games, the U.S. will have won more gold medals than any other country.
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Aug 06, 2008 - As he has since January, this week, Barack Obama enjoyed much more visibility as far as the public was concerned than did John McCain.
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Jul 31, 2008 - Barack Obama's weeklong tour of the Middle East and Europe dominated campaign coverage last week, and 90% of the public heard at least something about his travels.
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Jul 24, 2008 - Fully four-in-ten Americans heard a lot about a satirical cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker magazine. A majority of those who saw it found it offensive (54%) and few found it funny (27%).
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Jul 16, 2008 - Despite extensive media attention to the presidential campaign, relatively few Americans are familiar with either Obama's or McCain's foreign and domestic policy positions.
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Jul 09, 2008 - The public's top story last week was the rising price of gasoline. Fully 62% of Americans followed news about gas prices very closely, and four-in-ten said it was the story they followed more closely than any other. Gas prices overshadowed the presidential campaign as the public's most closely followed story by a substantial margin.
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Jul 02, 2008 - Last week public interest in the campaign, while significantly greater than it was a week earlier, still lagged behind interest in oil prices and the economy. And Democrats were almost twice as likely as Republicans to say they followed the campaign very closely (52% vs. 28%).
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Jun 25, 2008 - As the floods in the Midwest continued to devastate parts of that region, public interest in the story increased moderately last week, but still remained significantly lower than interest in the massive floods that struck the region in 1993.
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Jun 19, 2008 - As economic news continues to register at an almost record level with the public, no other issue gets close to the level of attention accorded the price of oil and gas. The Pew Research Center finds that 72% of Americans say it is the economic or fiscal problem they’ve heard the most about.
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Jun 17, 2008 - With the major party nominations now settled, the images of the candidates' wives are coming into sharper focus.
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Jun 05, 2008 - Over the course of the primary campaign season greater numbers heard about controversies associated with Barack Obama than heard about other campaign events. Nonetheless, far more Americans believe that the press coverage has favored Barack Obama than think it has favored Hillary Clinton.
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May 29, 2008 - What were the dominant personal narratives conveyed in media coverage of the presidential candidates? Which contenders fared best in the press and how critical was that coverage in influencing public opinion? How did those candidate story lines change over time? A new study of the 2008 primary season by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism examines these questions.
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May 28, 2008 - Fully half of the public said Obama was the candidate they had heard the most about in the news, while only 8% said the same of McCain despite a significant increase in news coverage of his candidacy.
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May 22, 2008 - The American public expressed strong news interest in the earthquake in China last week even as the news media remained heavily focused on the presidential campaign.
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May 14, 2008 - Fully 72% of the public - including comparable percentages of Democrats, Republicans and independents - say that journalists should not be anointing Obama as the Democratic nominee at this stage in the race.
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May 08, 2008 - In a survey last year, Americans named Jon Stewart one of the nation’s most admired journalists, despite the Comedy Central host’s insistence that’s not what he does. A new content analysis of 136 episodes of "The Daily Show" by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism examines the intersection of comedy and news that is the key to the show’s success.
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May 08, 2008 - The presidential campaign once again was the most heavily covered story of the week, accounting for 38% of all news coverage. The public, however, was more interested in rising gas prices and the economy, both topics that received far less media coverage.
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May 01, 2008 - Over the past six weeks the intense, and often negative, contest between Obama and Clinton has dominated media coverage of the campaign as well as public attention. Meanwhile, John McCain has received far less attention from the media or the public, and this is reflected in public reactions over this period.
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Apr 24, 2008 - The Interest in what the public perceives as an excessively negative presidential campaign declined in the days leading up to the Pennsylvania primary. Just 29% of Americans say they paid very close attention to news about the presidential campaign last week, the lowest percentage recorded since December 2007.
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Apr 17, 2008 - John McCain's campaign for president has been flying under the news media's radar since he sewed up the Republican nomination in early March. And amid declining ratings for the nightly network news broadcasts, and increasing controversy over Katie Couric's tenure as the CBS News anchor, nearly half of the public (49%) says that the three nightly news anchors are about the same.
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Apr 10, 2008 - The latest weekly News Interest Index shows that public awareness of the U.S. death toll in Iraq has risen dramatically since early March. But with the presidential campaign in something of a lull, public interest in campaign news has declined.
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Apr 03, 2008 - While her Bosnia flap made Clinton the newsmaker of the week, she continues to lag behind Obama in terms of public visibility. Both candidates, despite recent negative news, have seen little change in their favorability.
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Mar 27, 2008 - Fully 85% of Americans say they heard about Obama's speech, and 70% have heard more about him in the last week than any other candidate. The impact of events on Obama's image appears to be mixed.
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Mar 20, 2008 - Not only are Americans closely following news about Obama's preacher and Clinton surrogates, but an overwhelming majority (84%) are talking about the campaign with family and friends.
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Mar 13, 2008 - Not only are Americans following election news in record numbers this year, they are tracking the details of the campaign -- the charges, countercharges and controversial advertisements -- extremely closely.
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Mar 06, 2008 - Every week since November, 2007, the most covered news story has been the election, and the public has taken notice. Almost half of Americans (47%) listed it as the single news story they were following more closely than any other, up from 10% last November.
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Feb 27, 2008 - By a nearly two-to-one margin those who have heard about the McCain story think the New York Times was wrong to publish it. Beyond the presidential campaign, the beef recall and the failing satellite also attracted attention this week.
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Feb 21, 2008 - The public remains highly engaged in the presidential campaign, and strong majorities say the campaign is important, easy to follow, interesting and informative. The public's only major complaint about the campaign is its length; however, campaign fatigue has not increased in recent months. Interest in the economy remained high, in spite of relatively little coverage.
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Feb 13, 2008 - Barack Obama is seen by most Democrats as inspiring and as most likely to bring about change. Hillary Clinton is widely viewed as prepared to lead the country, but also hard to like. These are some of the major themes in campaign news coverage – identified by the Project for Excellence in Journalism – which are registering with the public.
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Feb 07, 2008 - With campaign coverage dominating (including 76% of the cable newshole), nearly a third of Democrats say the press has been too tough on Clinton while more Republicans say the press has been too easy on McCain than the other candidates.
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Jan 30, 2008 - The financial sector's troubles vied with the '08 campaign for news interest and coverage. Actor Heath Ledger's death drew twice as much coverage as Iraq and far greater public attention than did President Bush who announced his stimulus plan last week.
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Jan 17, 2008 - There has been no shortage of drama in either party's early presidential primaries, but in the public's view the Democratic contest has been far more compelling.
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Dec 19, 2007 - Man-made and natural disasters dominated the list of the public's top news stories in 2007.
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Dec 13, 2007 - Oprah Winfrey's well-publicized appearances with Barack Obama have raised Obama's visibility, especially among African Americans. Roughly a quarter of Americans say they have heard more about Obama recently than any other presidential candidate, up from just 10% in November.
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Dec 05, 2007 - Even as the 2008 presidential campaign draws increasing news coverage, the public shows limited awareness of the personal backgrounds of some of the top GOP candidates.
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Nov 21, 2007 - While the national news media focused heavily on the 2008 presidential campaign last week, the public divided its interest between the campaign and the Iraq war.
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Nov 15, 2007 - While the press focused heavily on the political turmoil in Pakistan last week, the public was interested in other things. The three news stories the public followed most closely last week, rising oil prices, the Iraq war and the recall of Chinese-made toys, received relatively little press coverage. The public's top story was the rising price of oil.
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Nov 08, 2007 - The 2008 presidential campaign dominated the national news last week, driven in large part by the lively Democratic debate in Philadelphia. Public interest in the campaign was up somewhat from previous weeks with 27% of Americans paying very close attention to campaign news.
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Nov 01, 2007 - The California wildfires overshadowed all other news stories last week both in terms of public interest and news coverage. Four-in-ten Americans followed news about the fires very closely, making it the fourth most closely followed news story of the year.
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Oct 25, 2007 - News about the dangers of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection (MRSA) caught the public's attention last week. More than a quarter of Americans paid very close attention to this story and 18% listed it as the single news story they followed more closely than any other – placing it at the top of the weekly news interest index.
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Sep 27, 2007 - The Iraq war topped news interest last week, with 25% of the public listing it as the story they followed most closely. In spite of a substantial amount of news coverage, interest in O.J. Simpson's recent arrest was modest at best. Meanwhile, the Jena Six story garnered significant interest, with blacks much more likely than whites to call it their most closely followed story.
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Aug 30, 2007 - Michael Vick's legal troubles attracted a large news audience last week, ranking as the public's most closely followed news story along with the devastating floods in the Midwest and the situation in Iraq.
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Aug 23, 2007 - The 2008 Presidential campaign -- with its crowded field and accelerated timetable --emerged as the leading story in the American news media in the second quarter of 2007, supplanting the policy debate over Iraq.
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Aug 23, 2007 - For the second week in a row, the plight of six miners trapped in a Utah mine dominated public interest.
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Aug 23, 2007 - Public interest in news has changed slightly over the last two decades, but in a manner that suggests no meaningful trend. The average reading for the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press' News Interest Index did slip during the 1990s from 30% to 23%, a seemingly noteworthy decrease that represents nearly a fourth of the original level. Had the index continued to slide as much in the new millennium, that change would have suggested a trend of potentially great import. But in the current decade the index has bounced back to precisely its level during the 1980s: 30%.
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Aug 02, 2007 - An overwhelming majority of the public says celebrity scandals receive too much news coverage, a Pew Research Center poll found.
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Jul 01, 2007 - Iraq has been the most closely followed news story in 18 of the 22 weeks that the Pew Research Center has been tracking public attentiveness to the news.
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Jun 27, 2007 - News Interest Index for the week of June 17-22, 2007.
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Jun 20, 2007 - In spite of their general criticisms of the media, Americans have good things to say about the major broadcast and cable news networks, according to this Pew Research Center survey.
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Jun 01, 2007 - The rising price of gasoline replaced the Iraq war last week as the public's most closely followed news story. More than half of the public (52%) paid very close attention to news about gas prices.
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May 24, 2007 - The Iraq war continued to dominate both coverage and interest. Fully 30% of the public followed news about the current situation in Iraq very closely and 24% listed this as the single news story they followed more closely than any other.
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May 04, 2007 - The debate over future Iraq war policy took center stage in Washington and in the national news last week. However, public interest in the story was modest at best as Americans expressed frustration with the quality of the debate and the clarity of the competing arguments.
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Apr 12, 2007 - High-profile candidates and the accelerated pace of the 2008 presidential campaign have drawn the public into the race far earlier than in past election cycles.
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Nov 21, 2006 - Fall 2006 Trust magazine briefing announces a new Web site for the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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