Too much Jackson coverage?
Poll: 64 percent have had enough
July 2, 2009, 11:17 a.m.
STAFF REPORT
Nearly two in three Americans say news organizations have given too much coverage to the death of Michael Jackson.
In a Pew Research Center poll published Wednesday, 64 percent of those surveyed said Jackson's death last week 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 of those surveyed said they followed the story very closely. The number was 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.