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Riots, Premier League kick-off, and continuing debt crises
for the week ending Sunday 14 August
- This week’s undisputed lead story was the rioting across England
- New Premier League season, US and Eurozone debt crises, and Syrian fighting covered lots
- New Tibetan PM, alleged Zimbabwean ‘torture’ camp and Brazilian corruption covered little
Covered lots
- Riots and their aftermath, starting in Tottenham and spreading across London before hitting Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Gloucester, Leicester, Wolverhampton and elsewhere, 2,097 articles
- In football, the Premier League season kicked off, 1,236 articles
- International debt crises continued, in the US, 723 articles, and in the Eurozone, 487 articles
- Protests and fighting in Syria, 160 articles
- The race for the Republican nomination for the US presidential election gathers pace, 81 articles
Covered little
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
Celebrity vs serious
Arab spring (countries & current leaders)
Who wrote a lot about… looting during the riots
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