A new report by the Pew Research Center has found that the unrest in Egypt was covered more on the news than any other international story in the four years that Pew has been tracking coverage, accounting for 56% of total coverage across all the news mediums over the course of a week.Cable news covered the protests more than any other medium, with 76% of their coverage focusing on Egypt during the week of January 31-February 6. The major news networks devoted 59% of their coverage to Egypt, and radio was in third with 55%.
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