The Media Monitors' Top 20

The Media Monitors’ Top 20

Kevin Rudd extends his lead in this week's Top 20, as he received more coverage than the next seven pollies on the list combined.

Crikey

Apr 09, 2008

Kevin Rudd extends his lead in this week’s Top 20 and, for a bit of perspective, received more coverage than the next seven pollies on the list combined.

There’s four Victorians in the Top 10, with the acting PM in fourth as you would expect and Premier Brumby still riding the water wave in seventh – but the other two? Peter McGauran (5th) and Peter Costello (8th): the media putting them ahead of the Treasurer, the Health Minister and the Communications Minister in the week he ditched the broadband contract. Priorities, folks?

TW	Move	Position	Politician	Press	Radio	TV	Internet	Total
1	0	PM	Kevin Rudd	1,315	11,076	7,861	11,919	32,171
2	0	Opp Leader	Brendan Nelson	350	3,214	1,532	4,270	9,366
3	0	Premier	Morris Iemma	279	2,417	839	2,029	5,564
4	0	Cabinet	Julia Gillard	179	930	309	2,392	3,810
5	47	Backbench	Peter McGauran	116	2,379	459	579	3,533
6	1	Cabinet	Stephen Smith	51	886	602	1,811	3,350
7	-1	Premier	John Brumby	198	1,024	487	995	2,704
8	13	Backbench	Peter Costello	150	1243	269	994	2,656
9	-4	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	283	235	271	1,853	2,642
10	8	Backbench	Alexander Downer	129	913	201	996	2,239
11	-1	Cabinet	Nicola Roxon	59	620	19	1,194	1,892
12	-4	Premier	Anna Bligh	152	256	47	1,250	1,705
13	0	Cabinet	Peter Garrett	137	245	300	951	1,633
14	11	Cabinet	Stephen Conroy	129	766	111	610	1,616
15	-1	Cabinet	Jenny Macklin	40	455	261	744	1,500
16	-1	Shadow	Malcolm Turnbull	112	270	79	989	1,450
17	-5	Cabinet	Joel Fitzgibbon	63	265	30	1,013	1,371
18	4	Outer	Tanya Plibersek	23	525	353	439	1,340
19	0	Cabinet	Anthony Albanese	78	420	100	718	1,316
20	-11	Cabinet	Penny Wong	82	408	21	706	1,217

Talkback Top Five

The Rudd and Iemma dominance continue, but Brendan did get some talkback profile out of the tour, and homelessness clearly is an issue some punters care about, which may shock a few spin doctors.