CJR - Entertainment News Stories Outnumber Environment Stories 3-1
If anything, I'd say that's kind of a lowball, but then what do I know?
Celebrity and sports stories are three times more common in the mainstream media than environment stories, according to a new report, which found that environmental coverage constituted just 1.2 percent of the news in the 17 months from January 2011 through May 2012.
The report, from the Project for Improved Environmental Coverage (PIEC), is based on data from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, which does a weekly survey of the top stories at newspapers, news sites, on television, and on the radio. PIEC, a nonprofit advocacy organization, focused on 46 of those outlets for its analysis, which revealed weak enthusiasm for the green beat.
On average, local newspapers devoted the largest share of their news hole to the environment (2.9 percent), followed by national newspapers (2.0 percent), online news (1.3 percent), evening network news (1.2 percent), radio news (1.1 percent), cable news (0.8 percent), and morning network news (0.2 percent).
Where individual newsrooms are concerned, the top three local papers were the Daily Herald in Everett, WA (7.3 percent); the Traverse City Record in Michigan (6.4 percent); and the Spokesman Review in Spokane, WA (5.8 percent).
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http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/how_much_environment_entertain.php
