In his past work, he and his students have watched and coded over 30,000 hours of local television. His most extensive work thus far has been in Honolulu, where Yanich and his team recorded 100 news stories and 600 political ads during the 2012 general election. Not one of those news stories, Yanich says, addressed issues and claims made in the political advertisements. Now, with access to the Internet Archive’s data out of Philadelphia, the amount of information Yanich and his team have access to has doubled.