Journalism.org What the Project of Excellence in Journalism found:
* Michael Phelps was the focus of more than one out of every four stories studied. That, in turn, was ten times the coverage of the next nearest athlete, gymnastic star Nastia Liukin.
* The coverage has been heavily tilted toward just three areas of competition -- swimming, gymnastics and track and field.
* NBC devoted roughly triple the amount of coverage to the Olympics as did other US news outlets. || Read the
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