The public wants better news than it’s getting:
Even duringweeks when the economy was the top story, interest surpassed coverage. For example, the week of Dec. 8, 41 percent of people said they were following the economy very closely; it was 13 percent of coverage that week.From Dec. 15-18, 36 percent said they were following it closely; it was 10 percent of coverage.
But hey, let’s talk more about abortion, gay marriage, Newt’s wives, Obama’s birth certificate, who “won” a debate, what video is “sweeping like wildfire across the Internet” and for fuck’s sake, the motherfucking weather:
Keep stats like the above handy for when somebody is boring on in a column about how the all-powerful news media is simultaneously powerless to resist the desires of the masses for cheese and stupidity.
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