5 Stories Vie for Media Attention PEJ News Coverage Index 16
While the ongoing storylines of the struggling economy and the incoming Obama administration were still in the spotlight, other stories rivaled them for attention. And in the end, for the first time in 2008, no single story filled more than 15% of the time studied on television or space online or on the nation’s front pages, according to the weekly News Coverage Index from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
5 Stories Vie for Media Attention  | PEJ News Coverage Index  | 18  | 16  | Financial  | 14  | Crisis  | New  | Obama  | 12  | I  | III. Gov.  | Admin,  | Blagojevich  | 10  | Scandal  | US Auto  | Madoff  | Industry  | banking  | scam  | Top Stories the Weekof Decem ber 15 21 2008 