The website Journalism.org monitors the news from 55 outlets every week, calculating what percent of the week’s print, television, radio, and internet reporting is devoted to each story. Our latest Transparency is a look at the totals for all the news this year, divided into categories of politics, culture, business, and plain old bad news.
It’s an interactive map where you can zoom in on different areas, check it out here.
I’m not sure how accurate this map is, I thought the whole Jon and Kate thing was much, much bigger – I mean, the nation was on the edge of their seats awaiting their outcome.