Liberal Leadership Issues in the News and Blogospheres for November 17 to November 23, 2006

Environment is the major issue in the news this week with 24% of the coverage. This is the fifth time over the course of the campaign to date that it has been the most significant issue in the news.

By comparison, economy is the major issue in the blogosphere this week with 22% of the coverage. In four of the last five weeks, economy has been the top issue in the blogosphere.

While environment and economy are covered differently in the news and blogospheres, Afghanistan and Education receive similar amounts of coverage in both the news and blogs. Afghanistan received 14% of the coverage in news and 13% of the coverage in blogs. Education accounted for 14% of coverage in news and 17% of coverage in the blogs.

The next tier of issues shows more difference in coverage between the news and blogosphere; women (12%) and national unity (8%) have more coverage in the news this week, while child care (9%) has considerably more coverage in blogs than in news.

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