Posts Tagged ‘media coverage’

Balloon Boy story non-stop coverage: this is what’s wrong with (cable) media

Friday, October 16, 2009 22:43 By GSerrano

The Associated Press has reported that the Larimer County, Colorado sheriff’s office has already ascertained that the Heene family did not stage a hoax when the Balloon boy’s parents reported that their 6-year-old son was feared to have been in ‘a helium balloon that floated away from their home and traveled more than 50 miles.’ [...]

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Twitter Makes $48 Million Worth Media Coverage in Just a Month

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:16 By Robert

After the near-revolution situation in Iran, Twitter has received unprecedented amount of media coverage and billions of web impressions, leading to remarkable popularity of the already popular social networking site. In fact all this media coverage and chatter has led its importance be worth about $48 million, which is nearly 100 times more than what [...]

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Media Coverage of Jackson Story: Just How Much is too much?

Friday, July 10, 2009 20:51 By Madhuri Katti

According to a survey conducted by Pew Research Center for the People and the Press in America every two in three Americans have said media gave too much coverage to Michael Jackson’s death. Nearly 64 percent feel it was overplayed, 29 percent think the news was covered appropriately and 3 percent felt there was not [...]

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