Too Much Jackson Coverage?

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Nearly two in three Americans say news
organizations have given too much coverage to the death of Michael
Jackson, but half say the media have struck the right balance
between covering the pop star's personal life and musical career.
In a Pew Research Center poll published Wednesday, 64 percent of
those surveyed said Jackson's death last week in Los Angeles has
received too much coverage, 29 percent said the story received the
right amount and 3 percent said the story got too little attention.
Thirty percent said they followed the story very closely, though
that number jumped to 80 percent among blacks, according to the
independent public opinion research group.
Pew interviewed about 1,000 adults for the poll, which has a
margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.5 percentage points.

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