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"Defund The Police" All But Disappears From Television News Except On Fox News

The timeline below shows total mentions of the phrase "defund the police" across television news since May of last year. Fox News…

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Mentions Of "Asians" Soars On Television News In Aftermath Of Atlanta Shootings

In the aftermath of the Atlanta shootings, several outlets have raised concerns over what they see as a rush to ascribe the alleged shooter's…

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China Versus Russia On Television News

As the timeline below shows, Russia surged into the media limelight in the aftermath of Trump's unexpected 2016 victory, but has steadily…

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How "Big Tech" Became A Fox News Term Since Trump's Election

The timeline below shows mentions of the phrase "Big Tech" on television news over the past decade, showing the phrase's emergence in…

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Spring Break On Television News: 2020 Versus 2021

The timeline below shows the total daily mentions of "spring break" on television news since the start of last year. Last year…

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Cuomo Stories Continue To Fade On Television News

The twin stories of underreported nursing home deaths and allegations of sexual harassment involving New York Governor Andrew Cuomo continue…

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Biden's Air Force One Stumble Receives Little Attention Compared To Trump's "Ramp-Gate"

When President Donald Trump walked slowly down a ramp at West Point in June 2020, CNN told its viewers that "President Trump…

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VGKG Crawler Upgrade Complete Including New High Performance URL Cache

We're excited to announce that the complete reimagination of GDELT's server-crawler architecture has been put into production for the VGKG…

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Video: Television News Is Suddenly Talking About Inflation Again

The timeline below shows the monthly percentage of airtime devoted to mentions of inflation across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News…

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Using The Cloud & AI To Watch, Visualize And Forecast The World In Realtime: Constructing Planetary-Scale Knowledge Graphs

For those interested in global-scale multimodal knowledge graphs covering text, speech, imagery and video and constructed through both neural and…

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Flattening TV News NGrams Using BigQuery

The Television News NGrams 2.0 dataset records how many times a given word was spoken in a given 10 minute…

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Video: CNN Is Finally Winding Down Its Once-Ubiquitous Covid-19 Dashboard

The timeline below tracks the total seconds of daily airtime since the start of last year that CNN's Covid-19 dashboard has been…

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A Planetary Scale Open Dataset: Just How Big Is GDELT As Of 2021?

Just how large is GDELT as of 2021? Back in July 2018 we showed that GDELT at the time encompassed…

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Video: Trump Finally Begins To Fade From The Television News Limelight

The timeline below shows the weekly percentage of airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News that mentioned Donald Trump since 2015. Since…

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Video: Immigration Mentions Soar On Fox News While CNN And MSNBC Give It Little Attention

The timeline below shows the percentage of monthly airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News over the past decade mentioning immigration. Coverage…

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WashPost: The Surprisingly Simple Political Calculus Behind 'Cancel Culture'

The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at how the major television channels have varied in their coverage focus. Read The…

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Immigration Mentions Soar on Fox News While CNN And MSNBC Give It Little Attention

The timeline below shows the percentage of monthly airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News over the past decade mentioning immigration. Coverage…

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CNN Is Finally Winding Down Its Once-Ubiquitous Covid-19 Dashboard

The timeline below tracks the total seconds of daily airtime since the start of last year that CNN's Covid-19 dashboard has been…

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Television News Is Suddenly Talking About Inflation Again

The timeline below shows the monthly percentage of airtime devoted to mentions of inflation across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News…

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The Cuomo Stories Are Already Fading On Television News

Andrew Cuomo's twin stories of underreported nursing home deaths and sexual harassment allegations have been covered by Fox News almost…

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Minimum Wage Fades From Television News

The timeline below shows the percentage of monthly airtime over the past decade across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News that mentioned the…

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Trump Finally Begins To Fade From The Television News Limelight

The timeline below shows the weekly percentage of airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News that mentioned Donald Trump since 2015. Since…

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Television News Ngrams Reach 3.4 Billion Records

The Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset has reached more than 3.4 billion records (station+ngram+10min unique tuples), charting more than a…

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More Lessons From GDELT 3.0's Crawler Architectural Reimagination

Last week we shared updates on some of the architectural changes we're making under the hood to GDELT 3.0's server…