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The Project for Excellence in Journalism has published the index of talk radio’s content for the week of March 31 to April 6, 2008…and it’s a...
April 11, 2008

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The Project for Excellence in Journalism has published the index of talk radio’s content for the week of March 31 to April 6, 2008…and it’s a doozy:








The data are staggering, especially when compared to the also-skewed (but not quite so egregiously) general-news index for the same week:

1. 2008 Campaign – 32%

2. U.S. Economy – 9%

3. Events in Iraq – 5%

4. Zimbabwe Elections – 3%

5. Martin Luther King Anniversary – 3%

6. Plane Safety – 3%

7. Bush’s trip to Europe – 2%

8. U.S. Domestic Terrorism and Efforts to Combat – 2%

9. Federal Reserve Regulatory Changes – 2%

10. Iraq Homefront – 2%

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Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.