Fox News Focused Less On War, More On Anna Nicole

According to a study released by the Project For Excellence in Journalism on Friday, Fox News led the three major cable news networks in airtime devoted to Anna Nicole in the first three months of the year, and trailed MSNBC and CNN in coverage of the Iraq war.

PEJ notes:

If Fox was less focused on the Iraq War, what took its place? Mostly — according to the numbers — Anna Nicole Smith. Coverage of her death trailed just barely the airtime spent on the Iraq policy debate, accounting for 9.6%

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