Certainly it is true that in a highly competitive news environment, media coverage tends to over represent marginal social forces.
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But the slow death of local newspapers and their replacement by ever-larger media conglomerates means that news coverage is being managed by a shrinking number of people at a few mega-oulets.
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In other international news, there is high-profile media coverage of the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but little comment.
In the age of social media and the constant news cycle, the coverage of celebrity weddings has reached a fever pitch, but celebrity watchers predict that excitement surrounding this particular star pairing could outdo them all.
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Up until six days ago, Fox News had been covering the scandal less than half as frequently as competitors CNN and MSNBC, but by this weekend, Fox News had picked up its coverage, said Media Matters' executive vice president, Ari Rabin-Havt.
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To get some perspective on the steady flow of unsettling media coverage, look at the big news stories that bookended the period from August 5 to October 13.
In the chance that being on television and across the front pages could be a draw to killers, the news media must err on the side of caution in its coverage.
Cheers erupted in the Denver Post's newsroom when word came that the newspaper had won the Pulitzer in the breaking news category for its coverage via text, social media and video of the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo.
Cheers erupted in the Denver Post's newsroom when word came that the newspaper had won the Pulitzer in the breaking news category for its coverage via text, social media and video of the shooting that killed 12 people during a midnight showing of a new Batman movie last summer.
While the events are fresh, and people are in crisis, media coverage becomes hyper-focused on every bit of bad news.
There is also a lot of upbeat coverage in The Beijing News, China Daily and other media on a mooted Brics reserve fund, as well as a development bank that will finance infrastructure projects among the five members as well as developing countries.
There were angry reactions from mothers, according to Storyful, which aggregates news analysis and social media reactions to events, many worrying that Time's coverage will make it harder for women to breastfeed in public.
The cases received increasing news coverage in a fast-changing landscape that saw a proliferation of media outlets with growing interest in compelling visual images -- such as a heart-rending photo of a smiling child or video of parents pleading for their child's safe return.
After joining CNN in 2008, Barnett initially hosted weekly episodes of 'iReport for CNN' reporting on the growing influence of social media sites and incorporating that content in CNN's coverage of breaking news stories like Iran's presidential elections in 2009, terrorist bombings in Jakarta and the offensive between Israel and Gaza in early 2009.
Still others positioning on our list seems to be dictated by little more than the news cycle (Queen Elizabeth, for example, has benefitted greatly this year by the media coverage of both the Olympics and her Jubilee year).
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Candidates can perpetuate the voice of their supporters or even a positive profile of their issue on Fox News (and on that note, pay attention to how journalists are tapping social media to improve political coverage).
But Downing Street sources partly blamed the media, saying because the elections had not been held in London they had generated insufficient national news coverage.
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