News Interest vs. News Coverage Health care reform 33 Economy 22
A third (33%) of the public says they followed the debate over health care reform more closely than other top stories last week, while 22% followed reports about the condition of the U.S. economy most closely. According to the latest weekly News Interest Index survey, conducted October 2-5 by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, one-in-ten followed news about earthquakes in Indonesia and a tsunami in the South Pacific most closely, while 9% named talks between the United States and Iran over Iran’s nuclear program as their top story.
News Interest vs. News Coverage  | Health care reform 33  | Economy 22  | 8  | Earhquakesitsnnami 10  | 10  | U.S-Iran talks  | 201 6 Olympics  | Polanski arrest  | Interest: percent who named story as most closely followed  | Coverage: percent of news coverage devoted to story 