The Media Monitors' Top 20

The Media Monitors’ Top 20

Well there may be chaos on world financial markets but there’s complete stability at the top of the Media Monitors Top 20 this week, writes Patrick Baume.

Well there may be chaos on world financial markets but there’s complete stability at the top of the Media Monitors Top 20 this week, and you would expect there to be little change for at least the next few weeks to come as economics dominates, the only question will be whether Peter Costello will maintain his new found love of talking to the media for longer than his contractual obligations may possibly require.

The Premiers were the big movers thanks to COAG, with the release of the Garnaut Report moving Penny Wong in to the Top Ten, although Bob Brown won’t be too chuffed about his level of coverage in what was meant to be a big week for discussing climate change.

Anthony Albanese the biggest mover of all as the pollies debated whether the Infrastructure Fund is just an old fashioned slush bucket or long overdue action on crumbling links, while Brendan Nelson moved off the list completely, but stayed in all our hearts.

TW	Move	Position	Politician	Press Index	Radio Index	TV Index	Internet Index	Raw total	INDEX
1	0	PM	Kevin Rudd	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	*21,022*	1,000
2	0	Opp Leader	Malcolm Turnbull	359	304	415	830	*12,693*	477
3	0	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	399	413	580	473	*9,854*	466
4	0	Premier	Nathan Rees	203	190	52	583	*8,005*	257
5	3	Backbench	Peter Costello	137	129	176	340	*5,238*	196
6	-1	Cabinet	Julia Gillard	214	107	217	169	*3,378*	177
7	2	Shadow	Julie Bishop	115	170	182	212	*4,029*	170
8	9	Premier	Anna Bligh	246	196	99	88	*2,659*	158
9	2	Premier	John Brumby	198	190	136	90	*2,711*	153
10	8	Cabinet	Penny Wong	102	82	125	120	*2,299*	107
11	13	WA Opp Ld	Colin Barnett	25	149	74	126	*2,542*	94
12	14	Cabinet	Anthony Albanese	62	91	4	125	*2,001*	70
13	12	Cabinet	Peter Garrett	121	59	6	84	*1,415*	68
14	0	NSW Opp Ld	Barry O’Farrell	12	99	23	134	*2,167*	67
15	1	Cabinet	Stephen Smith	18	6	62	154	*1,976*	60
16	4	Premier	Mike Rann	66	52	72	36	*989*	56
17	-11	Minor Party	Steve Fielding	27	29	59	114	*1,663*	58
18	1	Cabinet	Lindsay Tanner	36	50	55	64	*1,212*	51
19	-4	Cabinet	Jenny Macklin	78	69	3	50	*1,041*	50
20	-10	Party leader	Bob Brown	44	74	6	74	*1,322*	50

Not much interest in politicians on talkback last week, as football and local concerns dominated.

Rank	Politician	Talkback
1	Kevin Rudd	195
2	Malcolm Turnbull	113
3	Anna Bligh	76
4	Wayne Swan	50
5	Peter Costello	48

The search for Ms Lapthorne received 50% more coverage on television than the Prime Minister over the week, and overall received 50% more coverage than any other politician.