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Jackson dominates Obama in media coverage; Facebook

By: Charlie Spiering
Online Community Manager
07/08/09 3:52 PM EDT

It's no suprise that Michael Jackson has dominated national news coverage, but the media obsession with all things Jackson has far surpassed their interest in the Obama administration.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism notes:

For the second week in a row, Michael Jackson generated more headlines than Barack Obama, showing up as a lead newsmaker in 14% of the week’s stories compared with only 4% for the president.

 


The All Facebook blog also notes that Jackson surpassed the president as the most popular person on Facebook with over 6.4 million friends.

 




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angie

Jul 9, 2009

i wonder if i can still become michael jackson's friend on facebook?

 

Ronnie

Jul 20, 2009

WOW.... since this article MJ's friends have increased to 9.8 mil. Roughly 310K per day, 13K per hour, 215 per min, and 3.5 per second.

 


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