Broadcast Time for Obamacare vs. Typhoon Haiyan
Pew just released a study on how four major cable news networks divvied up air time to spend on two big stories last week (Nov 11-15): the Obamacare changes and the deadly aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. 80 hours of programming were studied: 4 hours per channel per day, 1 during daytime and 3 during primetime. The findings speak for themselves in the chart above.

The two channels with strong ideological identities in prime-time&mdash;liberal MSBNC and conservative Fox News&mdash;spent far more time on the politically-charged health insurance story than the overseas disaster. And the two organizations that built a brand on global reporting&mdash;CNN and&nbsp;Al Jazeera America, an offshoot of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera media network&mdash;spent considerably more time on the tragedy in the Philippines.

Image: Screenshot from Pew.