News Analysis

Over the span of seven days, I looked at the front page of the New York Times to track what demographic makes the news. All of this according to the editors of the Times of course.

The results were typical.

Tensions in the mid-east and power struggles in foreign gonvernments dominated headlines with domestic economic issues. And no matter which stories you looked at, one name would keep coming up: Obama.

That should come at no surprise considering he is the key player in what will be our government's involvement, if any, in all of those situations. In the seven-day period, the President's name came up near 100 times and made close to 85% of the stories. As expected, if the newspaper considered to be the pulse of the nation is to be just that, it's leader will mentioned quite a bit.

When it came to economic pieces, outside of Obama, the most sourced people were white males. Again, not a surprise. CEO's, Bernie Madoff, and economic "experts" and advisors made the list. The only time an ethnic group outside of white males were mentioned in the economy pieces were Maxine Waters, Representative from California and her husband who may be implicated in some wrong doing.

Women were mentioned in features as well as hard news. Hillary Rodham Clinton was at the top in that field of course. Arab's were well represented as well. The least sourced through this particular week was hispanics. Virtually nothing was mentioned involving them and exactly zero mentions of local hispanic citizens in major stories on the front page.