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Healthcare Coverage within the News Cycle — Hollow Hype?

For all of the attention healthcare has seemingly garnered up to this point in the election and post election ’08 season, one would have expected better news than this:

A study from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reports that news about health and health care made up less than four percent of all news content from January 2007 through June 2008, well behind coverage of foreign affairs and crime, and just behind stories about disasters and accidents. The report also found that health was the focus of less than one percent of campaign-related stories during the presidential primary season.

Report here. [PDF]

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