News & Views- week of 12 February 2007
February 16th, 2007Graph: US News Anna Nicole Smiths Death 3rd, just behind events in Iraq and ahead of the 2008 election campaign..
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Source: PEJ News Coverage Index
Presidential politics and Iraq managed to attract their fair share of coverage last week. But an allegedly homicidal astronaut and a troubled pinup girl really commandeered the media’s attention. The coverage of the death of Anna Nicole Smith was cast as sociology but it had the intensity of voyeurism.
Most emailed on stuff.co.nz today -
- Shocking teen-death rate
- Shark mystery in Turangi
- Sobbing girl ‘terrified’ at Gisborne party
- Bodyguard joins Anna Nicole father mystery
- Hospitalised DJ’s parents demand party-pill ban
- Presley loses taste for top job at Telecom
- Climate challenge awaits new generation
- Kiwi journo’s death hushed up - author
- Microsoft warns of ‘critical’ security flaws
- Boob jobs could have killed Anna Nicole
There goes Anna Nicole again in NZ news.. although we appear more worried about other things.
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