The Media Monitors’ Top 20

Wednesday, 26 March 2008

The Media Monitors’ Top 20

NSW Premier Morris Iemma almost pips Brendan Nelson and Nicola Roxon’s up into fourth place, as health becomes the issue du jour, bad news as usual for Iemma, and for doctors.

Tony Abbott’s keeping himself active explaining why he’s bipartisan all the way… not that it’s going to work mind you (love that Jesuitical logic), while Stephen Smith manages to keep a fairly low profile despite Tibet being the big news story of the week.

And what’s that stamping and raging you hear coming from the North East corner of Parliament House? Ahh, it’s the Shadow Treasurer, who barely registered in the media this week as State shadow treasurers (name two and you win a prize, name them all and we’ll lock you up) mumble “welcome to irrelevance Malcolm”.

TW	Move	Position	Politician	Press	Radio	TV	Internet	Grand Total
1	0	PM	Kevin Rudd	1,180	4,829	2,629	9,444	18,082
2	0	Opp Leader	Brendan Nelson	272	735	316	3,876	5,199
3	1	Premier	Morris Iemma	287	2,014	333	2,508	5,142
4	10	Cabinet	Nicola Roxon	146	1,613	729	1,655	4,143
5	-2	Cabinet	Julia Gillard	211	799	318	1,895	3,223
6	0	Premier	Anna Bligh	241	717	429	1,734	3,121
7	-2	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	200	426	216	2,125	2,967
8	2	Cabinet	Joel Fitzgibbon	127	877	344	1,248	2,596
9	-2	Cabinet	Stephen Smith	97	406	227	1,696	2,426
10	7	Shadow	Tony Abbott	84	734	427	1,042	2,287
11	4	Cabinet	Jenny Macklin	93	792	277	1,122	2,284
12	-1	ex PM	John Howard	238	206	210	1,500	2,154
13	-1	Cabinet	Peter Garrett	129	396	133	1,048	1,706
14	-5	Premier	John Brumby	165	168	79	1,003	1,415
15	5	Shadow	Julie Bishop	133	547	136	595	1,411
16	3	Cabinet	Penny Wong	70	192	186	872	1,320
17	4	Cabinet	Anthony Albanese	70	500	101	626	1,297
18	-5	Shadow	Joe Hockey	46	208	229	766	1,249
19	3	Cabinet	Tony Burke	105	289	1	587	982
20	6	Shadow	Nick Minchin	25	166	219	559	969

Talkback Top Five

Few surprises again, although the fine citizens of talkback still haven’t forgotten John Howard.

Rank	Politician	Talkback
1	Kevin Rudd	233
2	Morris Iemma	69
3	Brendan Nelson	48
4	Tony Burke	32
5	John Howard	28

And our celebrity control sample of the week: Cricketers’ wives are the new footballers’ wives? From now on we’ll see Boony types running around with 6 foot blondes? Twenty20 really HAS changed the world.

Lara Bingle and Michael Clarke

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