Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Sotomayor Web Chatter Index - Week 8

Confirmation Hearing

With the confirmation hearing done, it is interesting to see how the discussion has shifted into some factual and some "speculative" terms.

New items and faded topics

"judgepedia" - a wiki on judges - kept its place. It is also joined by the term "nlj" which refers to "National Law Journal"

Foxnews has completely dropped off from the top 20 rankings after being highly ranked for most weeks. Interesting to see Washingtonpost.com making a come back - I wonder if it is a reflection that now the denizens inside the Washington DC Beltway are doing most of the chattering. As for wsj.com's come back, do you have any thoughts?

Also interesting is to see the term "unanimous" in the top 20 which does seem to reflect the mainstream media's consensus on her confirmation.

More on the results

A reminder, if you are interested in finding out more about the result details or the inference engine used in this analysis, please let me know at yfjuan (at) parc (dot) com.

Results (top 20 terms ranked in the order of relevance with the most relevant on top)










GoogleYahooMicrosoft

justices

repeatedly

stating

americans

sotomayor

questioning

judiciary

dissented

reversing

helped

defenses

lawyers

nyt

â

cityâ

souter

www.washingtonpost.com

saying

became

unconstitutional


sotomayorâ

sotomayor

sonia

souter

krimstock

ginsburg

nominee

judgepedia

nlj

morgenthau

tasini

cuomo

hearings

leahy

judgeship

supreme

justices

judiciary

republicans

hispanic


sotomayor

moynihan

statehood

online.wsj.com

obama

nlj

souter

banc

cuomo

leahy

rulings

politico

gop

stating

reversals

ginsburg

prosecutor

unanimous

affirmative

cabranes



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