The Media Research Center’s NewsBusters website has carved out a beat identifying odd discrepancies in how much the press covers one topic relative to another. During primary election season, for instance, it reported routinely on Donald Trump’s saturation of the nightly news, rendering his now-vanquished Republican primary competitors afterthoughts. The comparisons can be arbitrary and the conclusions subjective, but the information often illuminates where our media wants to focus its cameras.

NewsBusters wrote Wednesday that the morning and evening programs on ABC, CBS and NBC dedicated 54 times as much coverage last weekend to the shooting of Harambe the gorilla than they did to the shooting of 69 people in Chicago during the same period. It also stated last year that the networks covered Cecil the lion more in one day than they covered the covert Planned Parenthood abortion videos in two weeks. Neither outcome was due to primate and feline executive producers running the shows.