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Cable News Wars
Behind the Battle for Cable News Viewers - March 2002
Top-Heavy News
These charts show the proportion of news coverage (Jan. 21, 2002 – Jan. 24, 2002) devoted to the top ten stories of the week, compared with all other news stories. The top ten are ranked in order of combined coverage on all three 24-hour cable news networks’ primetime programming. They include all non-interview coverage in newscasts and news reporting in interview-format programs.




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