Is it fair to compare new media and old media, two sources that differ in their focus? This study looks at the level of attention given to technology, foreign events and politics via traditional media and three social media platforms, Twitter, YouTube and blogs. Traditional media sources do not concentrate their stories in one area; they spread their coverage relatively equally. Furthermore, traditional media and new media rarely share the same top story. In this 49-week study, blogs and traditional media sources shared the same lead story for only 13 of those weeks, less than a third of the study’s duration. This article argues that although new media and old media do not always cover the same material and are generally incomparable, they do depend on one another.