Pew: Weiner filled 17% of "Newshole" Last Week, Santorum Falls Behind http://bit.ly/jSMfQq
Rep. Anthony Weiner’s now-infamous self-portraits accounted for 17 percent of the newshole measured by the News Coverage Index last week.
Not making this up – it’s really called newshole.
PEJ’s weekly News Coverage Index examines the news agenda of 52 different outlets from five sectors of the media: print, online, network TV, cable and radio. [...]
We live in divided times, and it probably won’t surprise you to learn that social networking trends are just as divided along lines of education, income, and geography as the rest of the country. A report from the folks over at Nielsen reveals that Facebook, with its Ivy League pedigree, is most popular among [...]
By now you’ve undoubtedly seen the well-educated, thoughtful, and patriotic batshit crazy citizens screaming about how universal health care is really the second coming of the Final Solution. (and if you haven’t, where the hell have you been?) Now, imagine what it would be like if someone with that sort of crazy actually ran for [...]
Glenn Beck is a rating hit for Fox News despite, it seems, having dove head first into a pool of crazy while wearing a swimming cap that prevented any knowledge from entering his brain. This time he isn’t crying for the cameras, or mongering fear… he’s at the Alamo on tax day for a tea [...]
Conservatives, fueled by Fox News, are all hot and steamy over the tax issues related to Obama’s plan for the economy. In an effort to continue making their stance relevant and newsworthy, again via Fox News standards, they’re taking to the streets with hopes of widespread tea-bagging!
Even MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow can’t resist now. Watch her [...]