“Credit Crisis” Becomes a Hot Media Term in Mid-September

In what many in the financial industry are calling the greatest financial crisis in decades, the problems with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, and AIG have understandably grabbed the media spotlight with 36,324 news articles containing the term “credit crisis” written between September 6^th and September 19^th.  According to Google news, as measured and illustrated by Trendrr, a proprietary web tracking service, “credit crisis” went from 35,408 news mentions to 71,732, while surprisingly, articles containing the term “foreclosure” did not spike in the wake of the coverage of financial turmoil, going from 15,203  to 17,414 in the same period. In another comparison, the news media was more focused on “going green” in the previous month, as news results using that term had significantly more results than “credit crisis” prior to the recent turmoil. Coverage of the “Iraq War” continues to outweigh all those categories, despite the recent explosion in financial reports, with an average of over 90,000 news results. To continue following this trend, click here: Trendrr

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