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Egypt Protests Got Most News Coverage Of Any International Story Since ’07

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A new report by the Pew Research Center has found that the unrest in Egypt was covered more on the news than any other international story in the four years that Pew has been tracking coverage, accounting for 56% of total coverage across all the news mediums over the course of a week.

Cable news covered the protests more than any other medium, with 76% of their coverage focusing on Egypt during the week of January 31-February 6. The major news networks devoted 59% of their coverage to Egypt, and radio was in third with 55%.

According to Pew, since they started measuring weekly news coverage, the single biggest international story was the Iraq War, garnering 43% of coverage during the week of September 9-14, 2007.

The Egypt protests got the fourth highest amount of coverage of any news story, behind two different weeks in the 2008 presidential campaign, and the Tuscon shootings last month.

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