The Media Monitors' Top 20

The Media Monitors’ Top 20

As predicted no change in the top four as that pesky economy thingy keeps the Brangelina stories from the top of the news bulletins, writes Patrick Baume.

As predicted no change in the top four as that pesky economy thingy keeps the Brangelina stories from the top of the commercial news bulletins, while Premiers continue to get plenty of coverage as they start to spruik for infrastructure funds.

Stephen Smith up to seventh owing to the Lapthorne case, Lindsay Tanner acting his socks off as Treasurer while Swanny knocks a few heads together in the Big Apple, Steve Fielding wonders why people aren’t praising him for saving the Budget, and the Medicare bill pushed Nicola Roxon up 14 places as well.

Nick Xenophon continues the publicity knife fight to the death with Steve Fielding while Peter Costello slowly drifts off stage right.

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	*21,566*	1,000
2	0	Opp Leader	Malcolm Turnbull	342	373	512	683	*12,042*	478
3	0	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	332	352	642	475	*10,061*	450
4	0	Premier	Nathan Rees	164	187	76	364	*5,581*	198
5	3	Premier	Anna Bligh	218	84	166	71	*2,128*	135
6	3	Premier	John Brumby	149	89	185	94	*2,412*	129
7	8	Cabinet	Stephen Smith	83	86	171	123	*2,593*	116
8	-2	Cabinet	Julia Gillard	111	57	116	150	*2,567*	109
9	9	Cabinet	Lindsay Tanner	88	137	126	84	*2,259*	109
10	-3	Shadow	Julie Bishop	70	43	76	156	*2,352*	86
11	6	Minor Party	Steve Fielding	57	90	66	114	*2,088*	82
12	14	Cabinet	Nicola Roxon	80	39	14	145	*1,996*	70
13	8	Independent	Nick Xenophon	44	49	38	113	*1,734*	61
14	-4	Cabinet	Penny Wong	87	37	24	89	*1,393*	59
15	-2	Cabinet	Peter Garrett	74	34	43	69	*1,205*	55
16	*	Backbench	Theo Theophanous	9	74	92	23	*1,016*	50
17	-12	Backbench	Peter Costello	57	40	19	72	*1,163*	47
18	2	Party leader	Bob Brown	55	18	50	55	*967*	44
19	-3	Premier	Mike Rann	57	60	12	33	*799*	40
20	2	Outer Min	Chris Bowen	24	35	45	39	*832*	36

The focus on the PM this week as callers battle over whether it’s all his fault or not (y’know, the economy thingy, not winning the first test, Justin Hodges getting injured…).

Rank	Politician	Talkback
1	Kevin Rudd	477
2	Wayne Swan	96
3	Malcolm Turnbull	90
4	Nathan Rees	63
5	John Brumby	46

Our Wayne skips out of Miami with a fine, probably because by the standards of American sporting stars, a punch up is almost commendable behaviour.

Press

Radio

TV

Internet

Total

INDEX

Wayne Carey

27

83

96

35

1,086

61

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