D e s e r t E x p o s u r e
June 2008
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. We start tracking the controversial border fence, which debuts at number 6.
- (#1 last month) Gov. Bill Richardson — 2,487 hits (down)
- (4) Sen. Pete Domenici — 880 hits (up)
- (2) New Mexico Senate race — 689 hits (up)
- (6) Sen. Jeff Bingaman — 462 hits (up)
- (7) New Mexico Border Patrol — 216 hits (up)
- (-) New Mexico border fence — 127 hits *
- (3) Virgin Galactic — 96 hits (down)
- (5) Gov. Bill Richardson + vice president — 86 hits (down)
- (8) New Mexico spaceport — 79 hits (down)
- (9) New Mexico illegal immigration — 69 hits (down)