U.S. Media Lags In Covering Latin America | TheLedger.com

During the week of Dec. 2-7, 2007, the Venezuelan referendum in which Chavez suffered his first major electoral defeat amounted to 2 percent of the U.S. news hole. Comparatively, news from Iran got 7 percent. During the week of April 8-13, 2007, the 6.0-magnitude earthquake that shook Mexico City and Acapulco got 0.3 percent of the U.S. media's attention. It was no match for the scandal about radio talk show host Don Imus' racial remarks, which consumed 26 percent of the news hole.