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For its part, the media devoted 16% of coverage to the WikiLeaks story, according to a separate analysis by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. Tallying together the economic themes, PEJ found them receiving more than a quarter of coverage: the economy in general (11%), the debate over what to do about the Bush era income tax cuts (11%) and discussions in Washington about how to reduce the federal deficit (7%).
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