Source: The clipping service of the Media Awareness Project Pubdate: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 1998 MAP NEWS ANALYSIS First, I hesitate to post this to the news service, shortly following an item titled "US TINKY STINK MAKES BRITISH WEEK." But the work is done, so here goes: 65% of the 11,700 news items posted were United States items. Of that 65% two thirds were identified in the subject line of the item as belonging to a specific state. We try to show all items that are national in scope, in other words, not specific to a state, as US items. When the event of the item is a state or local event, we use the state code to identify the state. However, since our editors do not always call the item as it should be, this is not as accurate a figure as the data below shows. My estimate is that it is in the ball park, no more than 5% off on the count, plus or minus. Below are the percents of the state identified items, followed by the raw numbers. 36.3% California 1856 10.3% Texas 527 05.0% Oregon 255 04.8% Wisconsin 245 04.8% Washington 243 04.4% Illinois 225 04.0% New York 206 03.7% Massachusetts 188 02.2% Florida 110 01.8% Colorado 90 01.6% Pennsylvania 83 01.6% Iowa 84 01.6% Arizona 80 01.5% Nevada 77 01.3% Virginia 65 01.2% District Of Columbia 60 01.1% Maryland 56 01.1% Connecticut 57 01.0% New Jersey 49 01.0% Kentucky 53 00.9% Oklahoma 44 00.8% Ohio 41 00.8% Indiana 43 00.7% North Carolina 35 00.7% Minnesota 36 00.6% Utah 30 00.6% Michigan 30 00.5% Alaska 27 States with less than 0.05% of by state identified percents, with their item count, follow: Alabama 6, American Samoa 6, Arkansas 5, Delaware 5, Georgia 25, Hawaii 22, Idaho 8, Kansas 7, Louisiana 15, Maine 20, Mississippi 5, Missouri 20, Montana 2, Nebraska 6, New Hampshire 5, New Mexico 2, North Dakota 4, Puerto Rico 3, Rhode Island 5, South Carolina 11, South Dakota 5, Tennessee 13, Vermont 3, Virgin Islands 2, West Virginia 6,Wyoming 2. We invite you to assist us in increasing the numbers for the under represented states. Guidance on newshawking is at: http://www.mapinc.org/hawk.htm And you will find both a list of over 400 newspapers complete with links to their websites, and links to similar lists on other sites, at: http://www.mapinc.org/media.htm Non-U.S Coverage: 35% of the 11,700 some items posted in 1998 were not about the United States. Note, however, that this does not mean that the items were not about the United States relations with the other countries. The large majority of the items from the countries south of the U.S. border in the Americas existed only because of the U.S. actions towards those countries as a result of U.S. drug policies, for example. The following are countries with shares of 1% or larger of the non-U.S. items. 26% United Kingdom 1072 25% Canada 1027 18% Australia 742 08.3% Ireland 343 05.6% Mexico 230 03.9% Colombia 163 01.2% New Zealand 49 01.1% The Netherlands 45 01.1% Switzerland 45 01.1% France 46 Countries with less than 1% of total followed by item count. Afghanistan 5, Africa 6, Argentina 2, Austria 2, Bahamas 1, Barbados 1, Belgium 4, Belize 1, Bolivia 14, Brazil 15, Bulgaria 1, Burma 11, Caribbean 4, Cayman Islands 1, Chile 3, China 10, Costa Rica 2, Croatia 1, Cuba 2, Cyprus 1, Czech Republic 3, Denmark 1, Dominican Republic 3, Ecuador 3, Egypt 2, El Salvador 1, Europe 19, European Union 5, Finland 1, Germany 35, Greece 11, Greenland 1, Guatemala 3, Haiti 5, Honduras 4, Hong Kong 3, India 2, Iran 6, Israel 1, Italy 8, Jamaica 8, Japan 9, Kazakhstan 1, Korea 1, Kyrgyzstan 1, Lebanon 5, Malaysia 3, Malta 1, Myanmar 1, Nepal 1, Nicaragua 2, Nigeria 2, Norway 2, Pakistan 3, Panama 10, Paraguay 1, Peru 10, Philippines 3, Poland 1, Romania 3, Russia 12, Senegal 1, South Africa 12, St. Kitts 3, St. Lucia 1, St. Vincent 3, Suriname 1, Sweden 30, Thailand 15, Trinidad 2, Turkey 2, Uzbekistan 1, Venezuela 4, Vietnam 7, Yemen 2. In 1998, for the first time, we started receiving translated items, some 50 in all. Excellent translations are very difficult and time consuming. We thank the translators: Pat Dolan, John Yates, Olafur Brentmar, Hugo v.d. Hoeven, Susanne Schardt, Peter Webster, and Boris Ryser. In the second part of this analysis, we will look at the breakdown by topics. I hope to accomplish the analysis within the next two weeks. Richard Lake Senior Editor; MAPnews, MAPnews-Digest and DrugNews-Digest email: subscription information see: http://www.MAPinc.org/lists/ Quick sign up for DrugNews-Digest, Focus Alerts or Newsletter: http://www.DrugSense.org/hurry.htm - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake