Within days of the first wave of media coverage, the more responsible press weighed in and contextualized analysis emerged.

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But even if Obama's vetting process appears overly scrupulous, aides to the future commander-in-chief are likely more wary of an early disastrous appointment that would cause a wave of negative media coverage and raise early questions about Obama's leadership skills.

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There will be reductions in medium-wave transmissions for local radio in England where coverage replicates FM.

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John Kennedy's death unleashed a wave of public emotion and a predictable flood of media coverage around the world.

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Too much of the coverage of the Internet and especially the current wave of startups seems focused on products, people, issues like privacy, everything but the business.

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Its second wave of popularity came through word of mouth once it started receiving widespread coverage in mainstream news outlets and popular culture.

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What gets less coverage is that a multitude of everyday employees are getting rich from the social media IPO wave.

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