Posted on 07/10/2009 9:23:12 AM PDT by Rufus2007
The passing of pop music star Michael Jackson has been the hot topic and may have even seemed like the only topic covered in recent days by the national media. And for the most part, having that impression was accurate.
From Jackson's death on June 25 through the day of his highly publicized memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on July 7, the broadcast primetime news programs - ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson," "CBS Evening News" and "NBC Nightly News" allocated one third of their broadcast time excluding commercials (34 percent). (See results here) That's 270 minutes or the equivalent of nine whole news broadcasts without commercials.
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Who is Michael Jackson and what is a CNN, ABC, etc.?
I think I would have been caught checking it out too, though...
But your “normal”...
What the MSM isn’t mentioning is that she was just a few years older than his daughter. A father of a teenage age girl scoping out another teenage girl? Poor form. Not that we’ll read about it, of course.
“Broadcast Network Coverage Devotes One Third of All News to Pop Star’s Death”.
The rest was devoted to the Pop Star they elected President.
One-third? I’m surprised it was that low. Seemed like three-fourths.
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