It was another scattered news week

Apparently Iraq would have had to have been carrying a communicable disease to maintain its stranglehold on the newshole during the week of 5/27/07-6/1/07, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The saga of the traveler with tuberculosis, riding various airplanes and a lot of cable coverage, was the only story to break into double digits on the overall media chart with 12%.

The 2008 campaign also beat out any of the numerous Mideast categories. And even there, the usual Iraq front runner, the policy debate, took a back seat to events in the country and on the homefront. Add those three together and Iraq was back on top overall with 15% of the newshole, while Iran and Afghanistan stories took the Mideast to 20% (4% and 1%, respectively). The outbreak of violence in Lebanon, claiming 6% of media attention the week before, was the biggest story to drop off the chart completely. Other than a 2% focus on global warming, there were no major meteorological stories of note. Immigration was a fairly hot topic on radio, but was of mild or no interest elsewhere.

Story	Overall	Newspr	Online	NetTV	CATV	Radio
TB traveler	12%	4%	6%	16%	24%	7%
2008 campaign	9%	8%	5%	7%	13%	15%
Iraq events	7%	8%	14%	6%	3%	5%
Iraq homefront	4%	5%	5%	3%	4%	5%
Immigration	4%	5%	x	x	5%	9%
Iran	4%	x	10%	7%	4%	1%
Iraq policy	4%	3%	x	4%	5%	7%
Global warming	2%	3%	x	4%	x	2%
Sudan/Dafur	2%	x	4%	3%	x	x
Afghanistan	1%	x	3%	3%	x	3%
General war on terror	x	3%	x	x	x	x
Supreme Court	x	2%	x	x	x	x
Energy debate	x	2%	x	x	x	x
Russian spy death	x	x	4%	x	x	x
Israel/Palestine	x	x	4%	x	x	x
Russia/US relations	x	x	3%	x	x	x
Memorial Day	x	x	x	3%	x	x
Rosie O'Donnell	x	x	x	x	2%	x
Dan Bartlett resigns	x	x	x	x	2%	x
Chavez/Venezuela TV	x	x	x	x	2%	x
Congress	x	x	x	x	x	4%
Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism

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