Thanks Evan for the useful website. However, counting the number of minutes spent on Runaway Bride versus Sudan may give you some insights on media coverage, it tells you very litle about the ideological content of the actual programming. For instance, we get alot of coverage devoted to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Iraq, probably close to that of, lets say, Michael Jackson. But the content of the coverage is extremely ideological. So its not only HOW MUCH TIME is spent on the coverage but
--- Evan Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Came across this today (now I forget where - I > think it was the > American prospect website) and thought folks > teaching culture or mass > media classes could use the findings from this > website: > > http://www.beawitness.org/methodology. > > Specifically, they catalog how many segments > ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, > Fox , and MSNBC devoted in June to Sudan versus Tom > Cruise, the runaway > bride, and the Michael Jackson trial. I didn't even > think it would be > this bad, (and FOX wasn't even the worse culprit.) > > Evan Cooper > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
