Weiner Fatigue: 63% Of Americans Are Sick Of The Anthony Weiner Story

[sufrommich]

According to the new Pew Research Center for People and the Press’ Weekly News Interest Index, the American people wanted the media to talk about the economy, and instead they got Anthony Weiner.

According to the Weekly News Interest Index, the Anthony Weiner scandal was the most covered news story last week. Stories relating to Weinergate made up 17% of the media coverage. Weiner got more coverage than the economy (11%), the 2012 election (8%), the Arizona wildfires (4%), and Libya (3%).

This would be all well and good if the American people were highly interested in Weiner, but what people really wanted to talk about was the economy. Twenty three percent of those surveyed listed the economy as the story they were most interested in, but the economy only received 11% of the coverage.

The respondents were not only more interested in the economy but they also they also thought that the media gave the Weiner scandal too much coverage, as 63% of those surveyed thought that the story was over covered. While 39% said they followed reports about the economy very closely, only 15% followed the Weiner scandal very closely. A whopping 57% said that that didn’t follow the scandal at all.

http://www.politicususa.com/en/anthony-weiner-fatigue


In other words, 63% percent of Americans are more interested in real news that affects them in their real lives.Imagine if the media actually cared about national issues as opposed to beltway navel gazing.

[BeFree]

1. Eh?

Well, are you glad he resigned?

[sufrommich]

3. No, I'm not glad he resigned. I'm pissed he was so reckless

on the intertubes and mystified why anyone would believe that a representative posting pictures of his fully erect penis could actually survive that kind of scandal. What that has to do with the OP is beyond me.

[BeFree]

4. You're pissed

And the OP was all about how people are f'n sick and tired about the media whining and here you are whining?

Poor baby. Get over it.

[sufrommich]

5. What the hell are you talking about? The OP isn't about

"how people are f'n sick and tired about the media whining ", it's about the media obsessing over salacious sex scandals as opposed to real issues and the general populations disinterest in it.

[BeFree]

6. Yes...obsession

You're pissed. Get over it. Obsession about an erect penis is no good.

[sufrommich]

7. Whatever, you obviously have a need to turn the OP into

something it's not. I'm not going to join you in your threadjack.

[BeFree]

8. Heh

Some people are so obsessed about an erect penis that they want to destroy the career of the owner, just because he was proud of it. The obsession is f'n nuts. Get over it.

[Kaleva]

2. In this day and age, people ought to have no trouble following the stories they are interested in.

It isn't like when I was young and we had one channel on TV and subscribed to one local newspaper.

[Turbineguy]

9. Looks like they'll have to find

something else to make us sick of.

[CrossChris]

10. The media had to send a message to the next person who thinks of messing with Clarence Thomas

Or probably, the person who tries to open up the can of worms on judicial-insider-trading. This is scorched earth, it's not about ratings.

[dmosh42]

11. Well the Repukes at Comcast want NBC to keep covering it! n/t