By the numbers

21 The percentage of health care coverage (coming from print, online and broadcast), which made it the most-covered story of last week 8 The percentage of “Balloon Boy” news coverage for the entire week, making it the third-most covered story last week 19 The percentage of “Balloon Boy” coverage Oct. 15-18 — which made it the top story for those three days Source: The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s News Coverage Index, measured from Oct. 12-18.

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