Slow News

“Hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans are taken off life support every day,” mused ABC’s Jake Tapper, yet there was so little else going on that this single sad case (refering to the 15 year vegitative state and family battle over Schiavo) snared enough attention to be Story of the Week. It led the year’s third-tiniest Top Ten (111 min v 162 52-wk-avg). In an average week the Top Ten gets enough coverage to occupy 58% of the entire newshole. In the six weeks since the Iraq elections that average is just 44%; this week it fell below 40%.

Taken from March 19th edition of http://www.tyndallreport.com/