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0 ++330 TAP FOR DETAILED VIEW POLITICS DATA OTHER CRIME BUSINESS COMPILED BY MARLA FRIEDMAN; TED SOQUI/CORBIS (TRAYVON SIGN); AP PHOTO/CAROLYN KASTER (OBAMA); BETTMANN/CORBIS (STOCK MARKET); AP PHOTO/CAROLYN KASTER, EVAN VUCCI (OBAMA AND ROMNEY) INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT --99 --111100 SPORTS 4 --4 TECHNOLOGY --223366 --3377 --1199 --3377 The Great Divide Each week, a News Coverage Index by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism identifies the top stories across newspapers, network and cable TV, radio and the Internet and measures the percentage of news coverage devoted to those stories. A News Interest Index by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press asks people to state which story they followed most closely each week. At right, we show the differences in the indices on a weekly basis since the beginning of 2012. At left, we’ve placed each week’s stories into broader categories to show which index has been higher overall. A positive number indicates news coverage has been higher; a negative number indicates news interest has been higher. This graphic was created by calculating the difference in news coverage and news interest for each story on a weekly basis, and then assigning each story to a general news category. The differences between coverage and interest were then totaled for each category. A subjective decision was made for placement of stories that fell under more than one category. If a story received less than 1 percent of news coverage, it was treated as having received zero for the purposes of this graphic. All data used is from Pew. The News Coverage Index is based on top stories covered Monday to Sunday each week. The News Index Survey is based on a telephone survey conducted among a sample of about 1,000 adults in the U.S. from Thursday to Sunday each week, and its sampling error ranges from plus or minus 3 to 4 percentage points. The two indices are comparable, but not strictly equivalent. NEWS NEWS COVERAGE INTEREST JAN FEB MAR APR MAY