From the latest PEJ study of news coverage for the week of June 29-July 5:
The Jackson story filled 30% of the airtime studied on network news and 28% on cable news last week. Within the network news universe, the more feature-oriented morning shows spent more than half their time (56%) on the story compared with 20% in the evening.
Jackson coverage filled 17% of last week’s total news hole (down from 18% last week), the economic crisis was the second-biggest story (10% of news hole), and the drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraqi cities was the number three story (6%) .
Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.