Analyzing Zero Hedge, v. 2.3

Continuing my project of classifying and tabulating Zero Hedge articles I present results from the past couple of days.  I am going to do this one more day, and see if it is worth the time it has taken.  I will probably THEN ask you readers for your comments...

I did NOT include several articles that did not really communicate much re ZH (RANsquawk, and a couple of others).

The below table shows number of articles reviewed by Category (Meme) over the past two days.  Note that I started about one half the way through yesterday, but for now, that does not matter.  N = 59 articles reviewed.

ZH_Current_Meme_Index, 14-Sep-2011

Category/Meme	# Articles	13-Sep	14-Sep
Banksters	2		2
BRICs	2	2
China/Europe	4	1	3
Economic Indicators	6	2	4
Europe/Default	19	5	14
Gold	2		2
Market Analysis	3		3
Munis	1		1
Obama	2	1	1
Obama/Scandal	1		1
Other	2		2
Political Left	1	1
Politics/General	1		1
Stocks/HFT	5	2	3
Treasuries	1	1

The below table is similar to the others I published over the past day or so.  For many ZH articles, there is an outlook by the author.  A "1" means a positive rating on the subject being reviewed.  A "-1" means a negative rating.  The one case of a "0" is because there was 1 positive and one negative review (Stocks/HFT).  Only 29 articles had a positive or negative spin on the subject at hand.

Category / Meme	Total, + / -	13-Sep	14-Sep
China/Europe	-2		-2
Economic Indicators	-3	-1	-2
Europe/Default	-17	-5	-12
Gold	1		1
Market Analysis	-2		-2
Obama	-1	-1
Obama/Scandal	-1		-1
Stocks/HFT	-2	-2	0

Comments:

1)  Clearly the "Europe/Default" meme was by far the biggest meme over the past 1 and 1/2 days.  I did see at Drudgereport (at least for a while) that Europe was the top headline there this afternoon.

2)  The second table above shows quite clearly that Zero Hedge is a "Bear's Paradise"...