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Valentine’s Day, Whitney Houston and Rangers FC
for the week ending Sunday 19 February
- The newspapers loved Valentine’s Day this week
- Whitney Houston, Rangers FC and Dereck Chisora were covered lots
- Anglo-French entente, German Presidential resignation and Venezuelan opposition covered little
Covered Lots
- It was Valentine’s Day, 313 articles
- The singer Whitney Houston died aged 48, 254 articles
- Rangers FC went into administration, facing a tax bill of £75 million, 183 articles
- Boxer Dereck Chisora slapped opponent Vitali Klitschko ahead of their world title fight, and brawled with David Haye after it, 111 articles
- David Cameron stated his commitment to political union between Scotland and England, after talks with Alex Salmond, 104 articles
Covered Little
- Cameron and Sarkozy strike deal for joint military operations and could create up to 30,000 British jobs amid rising UK unemployment, 22 articles
- German president Christian Wulff, an ally of Chancellor Merkel, resigned, 22 articles
- Venezuelan opposition parties choose a single candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski, to oppose President Hugh Chavez, 4 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 488 articles (-17% on last week)
- George Osborne, 195 articles (+20% on last week)
- Andy Burnham, 179 articles (-11% on last week)
- Alex Salmond, 110 articles (+59% on last week)
- William Hague, 85 articles (-27% on last week
- Ed Miliband, 82 articles, (-51% on last week)
- Andrew Lansley, 79 articles (-45% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 77 articles (-43% on last week)
- Ed Balls, 74 articles (+24% on last week
- Tony Blair, 69 articles (+31% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- The new series of ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ hit TV screens, 179 articles, vs Rupert Murdoch flew into London to reassure staff at ‘The Sun’ and promise the launch of a Sunday edition, 89 articles
- The X Factor, not on television at the moment, 111 articles vs David Cameron considers minimum alcohol pricing amid alcohol crackdown, 35 articles
- Sean Penn supports Argentinian claims to the Falklands, 57 articles vs further riots in Greece amid austerity debates, 46 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Nicolas Sarkozy (France), 108 articles (+54% on last week)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 77 articles (+10% on last week)
- Lucas Papademos (Greece), 58 articles (-45% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 37 articles (+131% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 6 articles (+20% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 6 articles (-14% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 3 articles (-57% on last week)
- Elio di Rupo (Belgium), 1 article
- Jean-Claude Junker (Luxembourg), 1 article
- Pedro Passos Coelho (Portugal), 1 article (-75% on last week)
Who wrote a lot about… Iran
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