This week’s media round-up

Stories about the global financial markets have again returned to the top of the news agenda as debate continues to rage as to how fix the Eurozone debt crisis. Interesting to note that this issue has been around for many weeks, but have the countless high-level talks actually achieved anything?

Of a less serious nature, England Rugby captain Mike Tindall made headlines for all the wrong reasons after an incident in a New Zealand club with a ‘mystery blonde’ and the return of the US X Factor (for whatever reason) received almost three times the coverage of the separation of conjoined twins.

For the week ending Sunday 25 September, the following number of articles were written in mainstream media according to Journalisted.com

• The debt crisis as world financial markets experience a volatile week, 353 articles (including Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, 112 articles and Eurozone crisis, 102 articles)
• President Mahmoud Abbas demands formal UN recognition of Palestinian State, 188 articles (including US threatening veto, 103 articles)
• Travellers at Dale Farm resist eviction attempts from Basildon council, 120 articles
• Labour Party Conference commences in Liverpool, 80 articles
• Zara Phillips flies to New Zealand and her husband Mike Tindall after ‘bar blonde’ incident, 77 articles, versus growing death toll as huge floods in China force millions from homes, 11 articles
• The X Factor USA debuts, 26 articles versus UK surgeons successfully separate two twin girls joined at the head, 9 articles