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Posted October 21, 2004.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of Google
News.
We've analyzed 91 election-related Google News stories and certain
sites stand out...
* The Miami Herald -
because it was at the heart of the action last election and has
jumped to 6th in our Bush ratings.
* CNN - for TV-centric news
like interviews. It jumped to 6th for our first presidential debate.
* Reuters and Washington
Post - because they've rated consistently highly for all
election topics.
* The Mercury News, CA
- because it leapt from 25th place in our general news ratings to
5th for Kerry and 3rd for the debates.
* Blog site Daily Kos
- because election blogging is hot and it vaulted from 546th to
99th place.
...and for George Bush election news
This ranking shows you the sites we think are the most relevant
for news related to George Bush's presidential campaign.
See below the Top 12 from the list of 162 sites. And see 6 sites
we ranked highly for George Bush news compared with their ranking
for news in general.
Newsknife's relevance ratings are a cornucopia for political analysts.
Click at left to join Newsknife’s Members' Area where you can see
the ratings in detail.
for deeper delving, right down to appearance
times and headlines for the 21000+ individual election-related news
site listings we recorded at Google News.
Method and results
To create the George Bush rating Newsknife analyzed 28 news items
(see below) at Google News since the start of 2004.
Google News usually lists seven news sites on its home page as
sources for each major news item, plus 30 sites on each of several
sub-pages, all "sorted by relevance".
We ranked the 162 news sites we found either on the home page or
the first sub-page of listings at Google News for the George Bush
news items.
We awarded each site points per appearance, on a sliding scale
from first to thirty-seventh position.
Our Top 12 from the 162 sites, ranked in order are…
1 The
Washington Post
4 1 1 2 3 1 0 22
2 ABC
News
2 1 0 1 4 2 1 32
3 Bloomberg
2 1 2 2 0 2 1 23
4 Miami
Herald, FL
1 0 2 1 1 1 1 29
5 Reuters
6 The
New York Times
7 San
Francisco Chronicle
8 USA
Today
9 The
Mercury News, CA
10 NPR
11 Straits
Times, Singapore
12 Voice
of America
The number of appearances are shown above for our top 4 ranked
sites. For example, over the 28 news items Newsknife recorded, The
Washington Post appeared on the Google News home page four times
as the number one source through to once as sixth-ranked source,
and 22 times on the first sub-page of listings we recorded.
Six more of the best
These sites whilst not all amongst our Top 12 for news related
to George Bush have made remarkable leaps in ranked position compared
with their ranking for general news. On that basis they're worth
visiting.
Each site is followed by its general and election ranking...
Daily Kos, US 546,
99
The Commercial Appeal, TN
545, 98
Lancaster Online, PA
452, 94
Salt Lake Tribune, UT 80,
51
NPR 32, 10
MSNBC 41, 20
Boston Herald, MA
77, 57
Bloomberg 15, 3
28 Bush news items this year
Here are the news stories Newsknife used to develop its George
Bush ratings. The dates given are for New York times, as noted at
time and date.com.
Newsknife records the exact times within minutes.
Feb 8 NBC interviews Bush on Iraq and economy
Feb 8 Bush releases military records
Mar 16 Ad attacks Kerry vote on Iraq funds
Mar 18 Bush hails returning troops
Mar 26 Bush raises $1.2m in Kerry territory
Apr 5 Bush to propose job-training for workers
Jun 24 Bush edges Kerry
Aug 3 Bush and Kerry campaign for Midwest votes
Aug 11 Bush mocks Kerry's Iraq vote explanation
Aug 29 GOP backers, protesters in New York
Aug 30 The Republican National Convention
Aug 30 Convention salutes Bush courage
Aug 31 911 dominates GOP convention
Sep 1 Bush nominated for 2nd term
Sep 1 Martinez wins primary
Sep 2 Cheney continues to attack Kerry
Sep 3 Bush post-convention push
Sep 19 Bush hits back over military service claims
Sep 20 Bush fires back on Iraq criticism
Sep 22 Bush mocks Kerry leadership credentials
Sep 27 Bush ads slam Kerry
Oct 6 Bush seeks to regain momentum
Oct 7 Bush to come out swinging in debate 2
Oct 7 Bush says it's Kerry who misleads
Oct 10 The Columbian: Our view, Bush reluctantly
Oct 10 Bush leads ABC poll. Equal in Zogby poll
Oct 11 Attack on Kerry remarks on reducing terror
Oct 14 Bush deploys "Liberal" tag against Kerry
Remember, you can see the full lists of top ranked sites if you
click at left to join Newsknife’s Members'
Area.
The 3-month Newsknife membership also lets you see in amazing detail
for each news site, Newsknife's overall relevance rankings for the
year to date. These are based on 142,403 individual site listings
by 1860 sites for 759 major news items that we’ve studied to date.
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