This week’s media round up
By Daniel Saunders on December 16, 2011 | Category: Blog | Tags: Coronation Street, David Cameron, EU, Japan, Kolkata, Leveson, leveson inquiry, media round up, Nick Clegg, Republican, Republican nomination, Russia, USA, weather, X Factor | No CommentsThe winds of change swept through this week’s media agenda in a number of ways. After a number of media storms it was a meteorological one which made the headlines with gales peaking at 165 mph causing substantial amount damage and destruction in Scotland.
In Russia, widespread demonstrations broke out over concerns about the transparency of the 4th December legislative elections, with many commentators branding the protests as the beginning of a ‘Russian Spring’… in the winter.
A post-dinner discussion in Belgium was the unlikely setting for this week’s leading story with prime minister David Cameron opposing EU treaty changes that were tabled in a response to the eurozone crisis. Despite its timing at the end of the week the sheer scale of coverage guaranteed the issue wasn’t caught short in its attempts to reach the top spot.
For the week ending Sunday 4th December, the following number of articles were written in mainstream media according to Journalisted.com
- David Cameron vetoes new European Union treaty to protect Eurozone, 532 articles
- Hurricane-force winds hit Scotland, 131 articles
- Widespread protests against Russia’s parliamentary elections, 128 articles
- The Leveson Inquiry into press ethics and phone hacking continues, 121 articles
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Now we look at the celebrity news that has over shadowed more “serious” stories:
- Girl band Little Mix’s success in this year’s edition of The X Factor, 82 articles, garners more coverage than a debate between Republican candidates in Iowa, 79 articles.
- A $4 million luxury car pile up in Japan resulted led to the publication 19 articles compared with the discovery of some of the largest black holes known to science, each ten billion times greater than the sun, which only featured 13 times.
- Coronation Street’s transformation from screen to stage musical, 16 articles, compared with the tragic story of a fire at a Kolkata hospital which claimed 90 lives, 15 articles.
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This week’s big political mover achieved the title this week by virtue of what he was, or perhaps more accurately wasn’t, doing in the early hours of Friday morning whilst European leaders were meeting in Brussels. His response and subsequent toing and froing secured Nick Clegg a 115 per cent increase in coverage from last week which equated to a considerable 266 articles.
