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  • As I believe I imparted to all of you last week, I was quite surprised at the reaction of more than a few of our readers to what they considered "overcoverage" of Crosby at the Games.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • The overcoverage of that disfigured pop star sickens me especially in a time when our troops are launching a huge offensive in afghanistan and our president is mending relations with our old enemey Russia.

    Obama girls take Russia by storm 2009

  • This is the golden age of TV pandering, and Michael Jackson's death is pure gold, as the past week's appalling, bloated-like-a-poison-toad paroxysm of Jacko overcoverage has demonstrated beyond doubt.

    Bill Mann: The Official All-Jacko 24-Hour Cable Channel Girds Its Loins 2009

  • I'm not looking forward to the media overcoverage or the emotionally charged e-mails from my fellow believers.

    Mail Call 2007

  • Couric takes the helm of The CBS Evening News, and Tuned In--always proud to be your one-stop source for instant premature judgment and overcoverage of overhyped media events--combines those two pleasures into one by liveblogging her debut.

    Katie Couric, Minute by Minute - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006

  • KING: Ted Rowlands, do you at all think the media has been guilty of overcoverage of this?

    CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2004 2004

  • News that wasn't actually news, experts who were not experts and I-- that's where the complaint of overcoverage came in.

    CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2002 2002

  • Media rethinking its overcoverage of Sarah Palin because, post-Tucson, she can't win an election.

    Slate Magazine Dahlia Lithwick 2011

  • Media rethinking its overcoverage of Sarah Palin because, post-Tucson, she can't win an election.

    Slate Magazine Daniel Engber 2011

  • Media rethinking its overcoverage of Sarah Palin because, post-Tucson, she can't win an election.

    Slate Magazine Annie Lowrey 2011

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