Where's the white part racist F'loon?
"Montell K." wrote in message
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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/entertainmentusmusicjacksonmediaindustry
>
> Most Americans believe Jackson coverage excessive
>
> Wed Jul 1, 3:24 pm ET
> WASHINGTON (AFP) - Nearly two out of three Americans believe the media
> gave too much coverage to the death of Michael Jackson and just three
> percent think it was too little, according to a survey published on
> Wednesday.
>
> Twenty-nine percent of the 1,000 people polled June 26-29 for the
> survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press believe
> the coverage of Jackson's sudden death on Thursday at the age of 50
> was the "right amount."
>
> Thirty percent of those polled said they followed the coverage of
> Jackson's death "very closely" while 28 percent said they followed it
> "fairly closely."
>
> Twenty-three percent said they followed it "not too closely" and 19
> percent said they followed it "not at all closely."
>
> Thirty-one percent said they followed the Jackson story more closely
> than any other during the week.
>
> Pew said African-Americans followed the death of Jackson more closely
> than the population as a whole with eight in 10 blacks saying they
> followed the news of his death very closely compared with 22 percent
> of whites.
>
> Seven in 10 whites said there had been too much coverage compared with
> 36 percent of blacks.
>
> Thirty-eight percent of those under the age of 40 said they followed
> the pop star's death very closely compared with 27 percent of those
> between 40 and 64 and 20 percent of those 65 and older.
>
> Pew said a separate analysis of media coverage by the Pew Research
> Center?s Project for Excellence in Journalism found that for the week
> of June 22-28 the Jackson story and protests in Iran received similar
> levels of media coverage.
>
> The protests in Iran made up 19 percent of the news hole for the week
> while the Jackson story took up 18 percent, it said.
>
> However, from the time the Jackson story broke Thursday afternoon to
> the end of the day Friday, 60 percent of the news coverage studied was
> devoted to his death, Pew said.
>
> Iran coverage dropped to seven percent of the news hole during the
> same period.
>
> Thirty-one percent of those surveyed said they followed coverage of
> the Iranian government?s crackdown on election protesters very
> closely.
>
> Pew said the survey of some 1,000 Americans aged 18 years older has a
> margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
>
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