The Media Monitors' Top 20

The Media Monitors’ Top 20

Even with leadership speculation abounding, Brendan Nelson can’t even manage a third of coverage enjoyed by St Kevin the Industrious.

Crikey

Apr 16, 2008

Even with leadership speculation abounding, Brendan Nelson can’t even manage a third of coverage enjoyed by St Kevin the Industrious.

The Treasurer is back up to fourth (and his opposite to ninth) as stockbrokers collapse left, right and centre and the media endlessly speculates about whether the Reserve Bank have succeeded in giving us the slowdown we had to have.

Kate Ellis leaps into the Top 20 for getting all the juice from Gen Y and stickin it ever so politely to the man, while Tony Abbott resurfaced amidst speculation he’s decided Nelson wasn’t such a great idea for leader after all.

TW	Move	Position	Politician	Press	Radio	TV	Internet	Total
1	0	PM	Kevin Rudd	1,590	12,341	6,342	13,336	33,609
2	0	Opp Leader	Brendan Nelson	405	2,675	1,523	4,887	9,490
3	1	Cabinet	Julia Gillard	336	1,894	1,179	3,229	6,638
4	5	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	272	1,049	855	2,002	4,178
5	-2	Premier	Morris Iemma	279	1,283	265	1,816	3,643
6	1	Premier	John Brumby	268	1,340	413	1,238	3,259
7	5	Premier	Anna Bligh	179	659	800	1,333	2,971
8	3	Cabinet	Nicola Roxon	110	924	291	1,368	2,693
9	7	Shadow	Malcolm Turnbull	165	748	392	1,203	2,508
10	10	Cabinet	Penny Wong	101	566	481	997	2,145
11	8	Cabinet	Anthony Albanese	97	839	126	901	1,963
12	23	Outer	Kate Ellis	78	785	229	718	1,810
13	4	Cabinet	Joel Fitzgibbon	86	425	26	1,174	1,711
14	0	Cabinet	Stephen Conroy	67	519	0	734	1,320
15	0	Cabinet	Jenny Macklin	70	499	31	698	1,298
16	13	Shadow	Tony Abbott	67	103	144	838	1,152
17	-9	Backbench	Peter Costello	87	233	59	766	1,145
18	7	Premier	Mike Rann	78	491	31	473	1,073
19	5	Party leader	Warren Truss	25	243	196	517	981
20	-10	Backbench	Alexander Downer	49	343	12	564	968

Talkback Top Five

Nelson up to second, but still only 20% of Rudd’s coverage, while Anthony Albanese is already receiving the benefit of some opinions on Sydney’s second airport.