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Few Television News Mentions Of LGBTQ Issues During Trump's Presidency

The timeline below shows the percentage of monthly airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News since July 2009 that mentioned LGBTQ issues….

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Indian Glacier Flood Receives Little Airtime On American Television News

The graph below shows the percentage of airtime across a set of US and international television news stations that mentioned the Indian glacier…

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Since Trump's Twitter Ban His Tweets Have Appeared On Television News 98 Minutes And Counting

Twitter's permanent ban of @realDonaldTrump was supposed to bring to a close Donald Trump's Twitter-fueled media stardom in which he…

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Fox News Leads With Imagery Of Police In 2020

The timeline below shows the total daily seconds of airtime (using a 7-day rolling average) that depicted police or military personnel somewhere…

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Video: RCP´s Kalev Leetaru "Ask Your Doctor" How Medical Television Commercials Faded In The Early Pandemic

The timeline below tracks the seconds of daily airtime in which the phrase "ask your doctor" is visible in the…

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How The Pandemic Made The Rest Of The World Fade On Television News

Television news programming in the US has long relied on Google Earth to show viewers where a particular location is…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Versus AOC On Television News

How has television news covered Marjorie Taylor Greene versus Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) since the start of this year? The graph below shows the…

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Television News Mentions Of The Justice Department Surge In Trump Era

The timeline below shows the number of weekly mentions of "Justice Department" on television news since July 2009, using a 7-week rolling…

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Tracing Google Earth Use Across Evening Television News

Using the TV AI Explorer we can search for all appearances of the credit line "Google Earth" on evening television…

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Fox’s effort to clean up its post-election misinformation is not terribly convincing

The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at how television news covered Fox's attempts to clean up after its coverage of…

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Video: RCP's Kalev Leetaru: A 12-Year Look At @realDonaldTrump

Donald Trump was permanently banned from Twitter on Jan. 8, bringing to an end to perhaps the world’s most prolific…

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Announcing The Television News Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) Video Time ASR-Aligned Dataset

We're tremendously excited to announce today the debut of the new "video time" Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) dataset for television…

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United Nations ESCWA: Big Data For Good: Can Big Data Illustrate the Challenges Facing Syrian Refugees in Lebanon?

This fascinating report under the auspices of the United Nation's ESCWA uses GDELT to examine Arabic language coverage: Timely evidence…

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Global Embedded Metadata Graph Reaches 705M Articles

We're excited to announce that the Global Embedded Metadata Graph, released this past December and running July 2018 to present,…

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Online News Coverage Of "Herd Immunity" Continues At December Rate

Mentions of "herd immunity" in online news coverage first appeared in significant numbers starting March 13, 2020, ramped down over May 2020…

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Online News Coverage Of "Herd Immunity" Continues At December Rate

Mentions of "herd immunity" in online news coverage first appeared in significant numbers starting March 13, 2020, ramped down over May 2020…

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"Immunity Passports" Fade From The News

So-called "immunity passports" were once touted as the way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, in which once someone had been…

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FiveThirtyEight: What Do Americans Think Of Marjorie Taylor Greene? Liz Cheney? Josh Hawley?

FiveThirtyEight used GDELT's TV Explorer to examine television coverage as part of a broader look at several GOP members of…

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A Brief Look At The Technical Progression Of Our "Narrated News" Highlight Videos: From Zoom To Atem Mini Pro ISO

Each week Kalev narrates a few of his latest news analyses in brief 1-2 minute "narrated news" highlights videos in…

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Vanguardia MX: Why Twitter Moderation Works So Badly

An article in today's Vanguardia MX examines  GDELT's Twitter 2012-2021 analysis on how Twitter has evolved over time. Read The…

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Weaponizing Narrative: Russia Contesting Europe’s Liberal Identity, Power And Hegemony

This study by Andriy Tyushka, European Neighbourhood Policy Chair, College of Europe in Natolin in Warsaw, Poland, uses GDELT to…

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Comparing CNN, MSNBC And Fox News Coverage Of "Police" And "Death"

Television news covered slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick very differently, with CNN and MSNBC emphasizing spoken word mentions of his name…

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TV News Coverage Of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick: The Different Stories Of Spoken Versus Onscreen Mentions

How was the death of slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick covered on television news? What can we learn about…

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WSJ: Notable & Quotable: Another Classic 'Fact Check'

The Wall Street Journal's Notable & Quotable excerpts Kalev's latest RealClearPolitics article. It appeared in print on February 4, 2021….