The Media Monitors' Top 20

Quite a lot of movement in the Top 20 this week, with Wayne Swan more than doubling his coverage from last week, writes Patrick Baume.

Quite a lot of movement in the Top 20 this week, with Wayne Swan more than doubling his coverage from last week, and even pipping his boss on radio as the full court press continued on why the government was “refining” rather than “debotching” (no, I know, its not in the dictionary) the bank deposit guarantee issue.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Opposition Leader, the first Bishop in 1,000 years to get the opportunity to attend Swiss Finishing School, managed to steer some of the attention away from the debotching effort, which the polls seemed to show the public weren’t really concerned about, in terms of the Government’s economic management credentials anyway … but could that have had something to do with the fawning media coverage?

Other big movers were Peter Garrett as he got stuck into Queensland farmers and told people to stop whingeing about wind farms, Anthony Albanese confected a marvellous bout of outrage over Malcolm Turnbull’s refusal to apologise to Ken Henry; and the compensation to bullied defence personnel got Joel Fitzgibbon in the news.

TW	Move	Position	Politician	Press Index	Radio Index	TV Index	Internet Index	Raw total	INDEX
1	0	PM	Kevin Rudd	1,000	987	1,000	1,000	*21,102*	997
2	1	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	476	1,000	808	558	*15,350*	710
3	-1	Opp Leader	Malcolm Turnbull	363	543	536	521	*11,065*	491
4	0	Premier	Nathan Rees	196	281	69	478	*7,058*	256
5	8	Shadow	Julie Bishop	100	339	201	81	*3,744*	180
6	4	Premier	Anna Bligh	236	232	103	106	*3,115*	169
7	-2	Cabinet	Lindsay Tanner	105	118	174	113	*2,652*	127
8	-2	Premier	John Brumby	161	79	65	124	*2,162*	107
9	20	Cabinet	Peter Garrett	105	92	80	62	*1,601*	84
10	13	Cabinet	Joel Fitzgibbon	72	145	50	39	*1,532*	76
11	-2	NSW Opp Ld	Barry O’Farrell	19	107	37	142	*2,261*	76
12	-1	Cabinet	Julia Gillard	109	89	12	89	*1,606*	75
13	-5	Cabinet	Nicola Roxon	69	75	25	102	*1,666*	68
14	20	Cabinet	Anthony Albanese	73	103	33	57	*1,399*	66
15	5	Backbench	Barnaby Joyce	27	110	78	41	*1,417*	64
16	0	Cabinet	Jenny Macklin	50	122	17	44	*1,293*	58
17	7	Shadow	Christopher Pyne	28	35	132	15	*910*	53
18	-11	Independent	Nick Xenophon	35	71	35	68	*1,296*	52
19	-7	Backbench	Theo Theophanous	23	47	63	68	*1,245*	50
20	-6	Party leader	Bob Brown	65	77	8	45	*1,014*	48