{"id":52,"date":"2008-03-26T22:36:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T03:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/03\/26\/the-incredible-shrinking-news\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T22:36:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T03:36:59","slug":"the-incredible-shrinking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/03\/26\/the-incredible-shrinking-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The incredible shrinking news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think we hardly get any international news in our mainstream media? Right you are. But we don&#8217;t get any domestic coverage either, unless it&#8217;s about the elections, according to the insightful but not cheerful new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofthenewsmedia.org\/2008\/index.php\">State of the Media Report<\/a> from the great folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.org\/\">Project for Excellence in Journalism<\/a>:<br \/>\n\u201cThe agenda of the American news media continues to narrow, not broaden. A firm  grip on this is difficult but the trends seem inescapable. A comprehensive audit of  coverage shows that in 2007, two overriding stories \u2014 the war in Iraq and the 2008  campaign \u2014 filled more than a quarter of the newshole and seemed to consume much  of the media\u2019s energy and resources. And what wasn\u2019t covered was in many ways as  notable as what was. Other than Iraq \u2014 and to a lesser degree Pakistan and Iran \u2014  there was minimal coverage of events overseas, some of which directly involved U.S.  interests, blood and treasure. At the same time, consider the list of the <strong>domestic issues  that each filled less than a single percent of the newshole: education, race, religion,  transportation, the legal system, housing, drug trafficking, gun control, welfare, Social Security, aging, labor, abortion and more<\/strong>.\u201d &#8212; The State of the News Media 2008, by the Project for Excellence in Journalism  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think we hardly get any international news in our mainstream media? Right you are. But we don&#8217;t get any domestic coverage either, unless it&#8217;s about the elections, according to the insightful but not cheerful new State of the Media Report from the great folks at the Project for Excellence in Journalism: \u201cThe agenda of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cappucino"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}