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"Mass Transit" Has Disappeared From Television News Since 2017

Despite being a centerpiece of the Green New Deal and a Democratic priority, mentions of the words "mass transit" and…

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Immigration Has All But Disappeared From Television News

Immigration was once one of the centerpieces of Donald Trump's administrative priorities, but suddenly in September 2019 it all but…

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Mentions Of "Men" Versus "Women" On Television News

As gender diversity issues have attracted more attention in recent years, it is worth noting that the timeline below of…

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Most Mentions Of Food Banks On Television News In A Decade

Over the past decade, food banks have received only a small number of monthly mentions on television news. Beginning with…

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Global Geographic Graph Reaches 1.9 Billion Entries

The Global Geographic Graph running 2017-present has reached 1.9 billion records! Learn More.

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Television News Mentions Of Unemployment Decreases

Mentions of unemployment dropped sharply from late 2012 as the 2008 recession recovered, but began to pick up again in…

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"Small" Versus "Large" On Television News

Mentions of the word "large" have decreased slightly over the past decade, but interestingly, mentions of the word "small" were…

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Television News Hasn't Talked About The Deficit Since 2013

The timeline below shows the percentage of daily airtime mentioning the word "deficit" across the three major general news channels…

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Inflation Mentions At Decade-Long Low

Despite growing concerns about future inflation, mentions on general television news are at a decade-long low and have been at…

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Mentions Of "Conservative" Versus "Liberal" On Television News

As our nation is increasingly politically polarized, it is worth asking whether there are major differences in the usage of…

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Mentions Of "Monopoly" Increase – On Fox News

Mentions of the words "monopoly" and "monopolies" have increased steadily on Fox News since mid-2016, while CNN and MSNBC mentioned…

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Global Relationship Graph Reaches 400 Million Relationships

We're excited to announce that the Global Relationship Graph's (GRG) Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot, which debuted just over a month ago,…

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"President-Elect Biden" Versus "President-Elect Trump" On Television News

The timeline below shows the daily percentage of airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News mentioning "President Elect Trump" after…

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Mentions Of "Criminals" Have Increased On Television News Over A Decade

Mentions of "criminals" and "crime" were relatively stable on television news from 2009 through 2013, but increased slightly through late…

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The Election That Never Ended: Television News Still Focusing On Election

The 2020 election officially ended just over a month ago, but in the eyes of television media is still ongoing….

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We're Talking About "Contactless" Again

Mentions of "contactless" delivery first entered the television news lexicon in late March and surged in April before fading, but…

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We're Talking Less About "Delivery" Compared With Earlier In The Pandemic

The timeline below shows the percentage of daily television news airtime mentioning the word "delivery" by day over the course…

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Web News Ngrams Reach 15.9 Billion Records

The 152-language Web News NGram dataset that runs January 1, 2019 through present, has reached 15.9 billion records, where each…

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The Very Different Views Of "Economic Uncertainty" On General And Business Television News

How can we measure the degree of "economic uncertainty" being expressed in the news each day? Scholars like Alexopoulos & Cohen and Baker, Bloom…

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"Outdoors" Mentioned On Television News This Year More Than The Past Decade

Unsurprisingly for a year in which the indoors have been viewed as a dangerous place, mentions of "outdoor" and the…

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Electric Cars Surge On Television News A Decade After Last Coverage Increase

Electric cars were mentioned steadily frmo 2009 through early 2012, but faded and have had few mentions in the years…

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Television News Mentions And Web Searches For "Wildlife" Decreasing

This year's pandemic-driven rules around social distancing and the dangers of indoor proximity have prompted a newfound discussion of the…

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Automatic JSON-LD Correction Coming To The Global Embedded Metadata Graph

With the release of the Global Embedded Metadata Graph, we're seeing just how bad the state of JSON compliance is…

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UTF-8, UTF-16 & Beyond The Unicode BMP: Lessons From The Global Embedded Metadata Graph

While fairly rare in the body text of news coverage, with the release of the Global Embedded Metadata Graph, we're…