The expanding dimensions of the terror plot in Great Britain captured the most media attention for the week of 7/1-6/07, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's latest survey. Two other stories also received a good bit of attention, President Bush's commutation of the prison sentence of Scooter Libby and the 2008 campaign. After that, it was another scattershot week. Along with the recurring stories there were a couple that figure to be in the here today, gone tomorrow category, including a holiday celebration and the release of a captured British journalist in the mideast. The biggest story to disappear was close examination of VP Dick Cheney, fueled by a series in the Washington Post. Radio was oddly out of sync with the rest of the media, giving the UK terror story only half the coverage it received overall and keeping the immigration story alive at double the going rate.
Top ten lists
|
Story
|
Overall
|
Newspr
|
Online
|
NetTV
|
CATV
|
Radio
|
|
UK terror
|
14%
|
12%
|
22%
|
19%
|
13%
|
7%
|
|
Libby sentence
|
11%
|
6%
|
6%
|
10%
|
20%
|
11%
|
|
2008 campaign
|
8%
|
11%
|
3%
|
9%
|
9%
|
4%
|
|
Immigration
|
4%
|
5%
|
x
|
2%
|
6%
|
8%
|
|
July 4th celebration
|
3%
|
3%
|
3%
|
5%
|
2%
|
4%
|
|
Iraq events
|
3%
|
6%
|
x
|
3%
|
2%
|
x
|
|
Iraq policy
|
3%
|
x
|
6%
|
x
|
3%
|
2%
|
|
Texas/Plains flooding
|
3%
|
x
|
7%
|
4%
|
x
|
x
|
|
Domestic terrorism
|
2%
|
2%
|
x
|
x
|
4%
|
2%
|
|
BBC reporter released
|
2%
|
x
|
8%
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
|
Supreme Court actions
|
x
|
5%
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
5%
|
|
Beverly Sills dies
|
x
|
5%
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
|
Iraq homefront
|
x
|
3%
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
|
Pakistani mosque siege
|
x
|
x
|
7%
|
2%
|
x
|
x
|
|
General war on terror
|
x
|
x
|
5%
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
|
Western heat wave
|
x
|
x
|
3%
|
3%
|
x
|
x
|
|
Global warming
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
3%
|
x
|
2%
|
|
Wrestler/crime
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
3%
|
x
|
|
Iran
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
2%
|
x
|
|
iPhone
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
3%
|
Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism
