Is This Why Fox News Viewers Really Tune In?
It’s funny that for all their flag waving and chest thumping the editors of Fox News spent more time covering Anna Nicole Smith recently than they did covering the Iraq war.
According to PEJ’s first quarter News Coverage Index, “MSNBC and CNN were much more consumed with the war in Iraq than was Fox.”
In daytime, FNC devoted 6 percent of its time to Iraq, and 17 percent of its time to Anna Nicole. For CNN, the mix was 20 percent Iraq, 5 percent Anna; for MSNBC, the mix was 18 percent Iraq, 10 percent Anna – Mediabistro.com
Read the entire report at the Project for Excellence in Journalism website and try not to be shocked that Fox “News” is anything but.
And what’s up with only spending 6% of their time covering Iraq? Surely there’s more than enough “good news” which isn’t being reported by the liberal Anna Nicole Smith hating media?
The Shepard Express did a story on local TV news a month or two ago. Unfortunately I missed that issue. But I did get to read some of the letters to the editor in response and there was a lot of agreeing that local TV news in Milwaukee sucks.