Greg Sargent notes that last week the inside baseball dispute between the White House and Fox News grabbed as much overall news coverage as the swine flu. You know, that thing that the president recently labeled a national emergency.

No doubt it's depressing to watch journalists spend so much time navel gazing. (BTW, it's our job and Media Matters to watch the press, what journalists' excuse?) But it actually gets worse when you break down the recent Pew Research data by media sector and see just how much time cable TV devoted to the Fox News story.

Behold:

That's right, last week cable news channels devoted nearly three times more coverage to Fox News as they did the swine flu, which has killed more than 1,000 Americans this year.