D e s e r t E x p o s u r e
September 2009
The Tumbleweeds Top 10
Who and what's been making news from New Mexico this past month, as measured by mentions in Google News (news.google.com), which tracks 4,500 worldwide news sources (trends noted are vs. last month's total hits; * indicates new to the list). Number in parenthesis indicates last month's Top 10 rank. Health care reform (and protests) put Bingaman and Teague in the headlines, while Karl Rove's role in US attorney firings does likewise for Iglesias and Domenici. Plus we start tracking wolves!
- (1) Gov. Bill Richardson — 1,056 hits (up)
- (-) Fired US Attorney David Iglesias — 782 hits *
- (2) Virgin Galactic — 689 hits (up)
- (-) New Mexico wolves — 423 hits *
- (3) Sen. Jeff Bingaman — 358 hits (up)
- (-) Former Sen. Pete Domenici — 308 hits (up)
- (-) Sen. Jeff Bingaman + health care — 254 hits *
- (5) Rep. Harry Teague — 249 hits (up)
- (4) Sen. Tom Udall — 110 hits (down)
- (7) New Mexico + ethics — 58 hits (up)
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