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Table 5.8 Continued
Leading Story (% of Total)
Week Beginning
0
August 23
August 30
0
September 6
0
September 13
0
September 20
0
47
September 27
October 4
34
October 11
56
0
October 18
40
October 25
0
November 1
November 8
0
0
November 15
November 22
0
0
November 29
0
December 6
0
December 13
0
December 20
0
December 27
0
January 3
January 10 THE MEDIA DURING THE KOSOVO CRISIS 95
0
January 17 70
January 24 70
January 31 0
February 7 13
February 14 76
February 21 35
February 28 36
March 7 56
March 14 58
effect within Western media coverage regarding the importance allot-
ted to the Kosovo civil war, research is conduced on the level of lead-
ing story coverage devoted to the issue over the time line to
intervention. Graph 5.3 compares all news coverage to leading story
news coverage, while tables 5.7 and 5.8 show the same data in tabular
format, in absolute and relative terms, respectively.
The findings show that the same events that created spikes earlier
also generated leading news stories, but with a notable pattern of
increasing coverage as events moved closer to military intervention.
The events of mid-June, for example, generated more attention than