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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
"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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Global Embedded Metadata Graph Historical Backfile Coming Soon
Based on the excitement and fantastic feedback we've been receiving about the new Global Embedded Metadata Graph and its usefulness,…
Explaining The Shift In Television News Readability Scores
What might explain the profound change in the readability of television news coverage over the past decade? As the timeline…
Comparing Television News Readability Between Transcripts And Closed Captioning
When it comes to translating television news into searchable text, both realtime closed captioning and cleaned post-broadcast rush transcripts are…
Identifying Invalid JSON-LD Through The Global Embedded Metadata Graph
How might we use the Global Embedded Metadata Graph to identify invalid JSON-LD code in news articles? The following query…
Compiling A Histogram Of META Tags From The Global Embedded Metadata Graph
What are the most common attributes seen in <META> tags on the open web? Earlier today, with around 12 hours…
Comparing Covid-19 Coverage Across National, International, Business and CSPAN Television News
How has the attention paid to Covid-19 varied across different classes of television channels? The charts below plot the percentage…
"Great Barrington Declaration" Receives Little Television News Attention
The Great Barrington Declaration received a brief burst of attention in October, but has seen few mentions since. MSNBC has covered it…