Michael Jackson Still Dominating The News
Even today, well after the memorial service and weeks after his death, Michael Jackson is still dominating the news.
Why do I say this? Look at this screenshot of Newsmap:
This site is a news aggregator and displays headlines of topics sized according to the number of current articles on that topic. Normally for my configuration, the red blocks, which are world news, and the gold blocks, which are national news, cover more than half the screen, the blue, which is entertainment news, covers what you now see the purple covering, which is health news. The fact that there are two huge blocks both of which involve Michael Jackson show the dominance of this “story”.
Where is our sense of proportion? There is something very wrong here, which I will comment on more later.
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Cross-posted between Random Fate and The Moderate Voice.
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4 Responses to “Michael Jackson Still Dominating The News”
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You ask, “where is the sense of proportion?” which is a very good question.
Perhaps, as a journalist, you can give us your opinion as to whether this sense of “misproportion” is a result of what the public is interested in, or what the media thinks the public should be interested in.
Thanks
Dorian,
Just went to Newsmap.
What a fantastic tool!
I clicked on several foreign countries and was amazed at the differences of what seems to be important from country to country. Try it
Thanks for bringing this up
Dorian
Thanks for the feedback, Jack