Measuring News Interest Percent following each
Looking at other news, 6% say they followed the World Cup more closely than any other story last week; 14% say they followed the international soccer tournament very closely. News about the World Cup made up 2% of the news coverage last week.
Faisal Shazhad’s guilty plea in connection with the May attempt to explode a car bomb in Times Square was the top story for just 1% of Americans; 18% say they followed this story very closely. Interest in the story is far lower than in early May, shortly after the incident, when 37% said they followed news about the investigation and arrests very closely and 13% named this the story they followed most closely. The Times Square guilty please took up 2% of last week’s newshole.
Measuring News Interest  | Percent following each  | Which one story did you  | story very following closely  | follow "most story closely?" you  | Oil leak 56  | 53  | Economy 37  | 12  | I  | McChrystal 28  | World Cup 14  | Budget probs 26  | Times Sq plea 18 