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"james g. keegan jr." |
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15 Feb 2005 04:10:57 PM |
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Iraq: the 25-second war |
small wonder that people of many countries consider americans very
ignorant.
Iraq: the 25-second war
From Broadcasting and Cable, February 14, 2005
By John Eggerton
Although many considered the November presidential election a referendum
on Iraq, that would have been hard to tell by the time devoted to the
war in local TV newscasts.
Of 44 network affiliate evening newscasts studied in 11 markets,
stations averaged 25 seconds of Iraq war coverage per newscast. The only
story given less coverage was foreign policy, at 13 seconds.
The presidential election got almost five times that coverage at two
minutes, though local races barely beat it out at 30 seconds. Iraq was
also beaten out by sports, weather, health, crime, injury, economy,
“other,” and even bumpers, teases and intro music.
That’s according to a new study by the Norman Lear Center (Annenberg
School of Communications) and the NewsLab of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
That study was reported to the FCC last week as part of the commission’s
open inquiry on broadcast localism and is expected to be used by media
consolidation foes to argue against more consolidation..
Parts of the study suggesting underreporting of local races—8% of the
over-4,000 newscasts studied covered local elections, the study
found—are also expected to be used by Senator John McCain. Campaign
reformer McCain, who has been pushing stations to do more election
coverage, is planning to talk about the study at a press conference in
Washington Tuesday.
According to the report, the typical pre-election newscast broke down
this way:
* Ads: 8 minutes
* Sports/weather: 6 minutes
* Elections: 3 minutes, 11 seconds
* Crime: 2 minutes, 34 seconds
* Local interest : 1 minute, 56 seconds
* Teasers, intros: 1 minute, 43 seconds
* Health: 1 minute, 22 seconds
* Other: 1 minute, 12 seconds
* Injury: 55 seconds
* Business/economy: 47 seconds
* Iraq: 25 seconds
* Foreign policy: 13 seconds
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| User: "Sergeant America" |
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| Title: Re: Iraq: the 25-second war |
15 Feb 2005 04:44:49 PM |
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wtf is your point mindless cross posting fanatic. intelligent people
know how to get their news. maybe your lieberal pals in the media should
tune in to Rush..
"james g. keegan jr." wrote:
small wonder that people of many countries consider americans very
ignorant.
Iraq: the 25-second war
From Broadcasting and Cable, February 14, 2005
By John Eggerton
Although many considered the November presidential election a referendum
on Iraq, that would have been hard to tell by the time devoted to the
war in local TV newscasts.
Of 44 network affiliate evening newscasts studied in 11 markets,
stations averaged 25 seconds of Iraq war coverage per newscast. The only
story given less coverage was foreign policy, at 13 seconds.
The presidential election got almost five times that coverage at two
minutes, though local races barely beat it out at 30 seconds. Iraq was
also beaten out by sports, weather, health, crime, injury, economy,
“other,” and even bumpers, teases and intro music.
That’s according to a new study by the Norman Lear Center (Annenberg
School of Communications) and the NewsLab of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
That study was reported to the FCC last week as part of the commission’s
open inquiry on broadcast localism and is expected to be used by media
consolidation foes to argue against more consolidation..
Parts of the study suggesting underreporting of local races—8% of the
over-4,000 newscasts studied covered local elections, the study
found—are also expected to be used by Senator John McCain. Campaign
reformer McCain, who has been pushing stations to do more election
coverage, is planning to talk about the study at a press conference in
Washington Tuesday.
According to the report, the typical pre-election newscast broke down
this way:
* Ads: 8 minutes
* Sports/weather: 6 minutes
* Elections: 3 minutes, 11 seconds
* Crime: 2 minutes, 34 seconds
* Local interest : 1 minute, 56 seconds
* Teasers, intros: 1 minute, 43 seconds
* Health: 1 minute, 22 seconds
* Other: 1 minute, 12 seconds
* Injury: 55 seconds
* Business/economy: 47 seconds
* Iraq: 25 seconds
* Foreign policy: 13 seconds
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| User: "james g. keegan jr." |
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| Title: Re: Iraq: the 25-second war |
15 Feb 2005 04:59:34 PM |
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* illiterate top post reformatted as a courtesy to readers *
Sergeant America wrote:
"james g. keegan jr." wrote:
small wonder that people of many countries consider americans very
ignorant.
Iraq: the 25-second war
From Broadcasting and Cable, February 14, 2005
By John Eggerton
Although many considered the November presidential election a
referendum
on Iraq, that would have been hard to tell by the time devoted to
the
war in local TV newscasts.
Of 44 network affiliate evening newscasts studied in 11 markets,
stations averaged 25 seconds of Iraq war coverage per newscast. The
only
story given less coverage was foreign policy, at 13 seconds.
The presidential election got almost five times that coverage at
two
minutes, though local races barely beat it out at 30 seconds. Iraq
was
also beaten out by sports, weather, health, crime, injury, economy,
"other," and even bumpers, teases and intro music.
That's according to a new study by the Norman Lear Center
(Annenberg
School of Communications) and the NewsLab of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
That study was reported to the FCC last week as part of the
commission's
open inquiry on broadcast localism and is expected to be used by
media
consolidation foes to argue against more consolidation..
Parts of the study suggesting underreporting of local races-8% of
the
over-4,000 newscasts studied covered local elections, the study
found-are also expected to be used by Senator John McCain.
Campaign
reformer McCain, who has been pushing stations to do more election
coverage, is planning to talk about the study at a press conference
in
Washington Tuesday.
According to the report, the typical pre-election newscast broke
down
this way:
* Ads: 8 minutes
* Sports/weather: 6 minutes
* Elections: 3 minutes, 11 seconds
* Crime: 2 minutes, 34 seconds
* Local interest : 1 minute, 56 seconds
* Teasers, intros: 1 minute, 43 seconds
* Health: 1 minute, 22 seconds
* Other: 1 minute, 12 seconds
* Injury: 55 seconds
* Business/economy: 47 seconds
* Iraq: 25 seconds
* Foreign policy: 13 seconds
wtf is your point mindless cross posting fanatic. intelligent people
know how to get their news. maybe your lieberal pals in the media
should
tune in to Rush..
anyone who would use the terms "Rush" and "news" as if one has any
relationship with the other has demonstrated their illiteracy.
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| User: "Ray Fischer" |
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| Title: Re: Iraq: the 25-second war |
15 Feb 2005 09:07:58 PM |
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Sergeant America <kill@terrorists.and.fascists> wrote:
wtf is your point mindless cross posting fanatic. intelligent people
know how to get their news.
Listen to Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and Fox "news".
They wouldn't lie or anything.
--
Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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