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Posted April 2, 2005.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of Google
News.
Our count of the front page headlines at Google News puts the Lebanon
situation as the major news item over February-March, just ahead
of news about Terri Schiavo.
We've chosen Lebanon for our current rating as it is a news story
that's still unfolding. Newsknife's list of top sites will help
you get the best information if you want to keep following Lebanon
news.
The events so far start with the assassination of former Prime
Minister Rafik Hariri, the ensuing uprising in Lebanon, the withdrawal
of Syrian troops and recent fears of a return to violence.
Newsknife's ranked list of 127 news sites was produced from 3858
individual site listings for 20 news items about Lebanon at Google
News during February-March.
You can see the articles we monitored further down this page.
The sites were listed on the Google News home page and first sub-page
as sources. The Daily Star, Lebanon is our No. 1 ranked site. The
top 12 of the 127 sites are listed below.
Google News usually lists seven news sites per major news item
on their home page and thirty on each sub-page, all "sorted
by relevance". We award each site points per appearance on
a sliding scale from first to thirty-seventh position, and we total
the points to get the ranking positions.
We found The Daily Star once each in first, second, third and
fourth place, three times as the sixth and twice as the seventh
ranked site on the home page, plus 35 times on the first sub-page.
1 The
Daily Star, Lebanon
1 1 1 1 0 3 2 35
2 ABC
News
3 3 0 1 1 1 1 34
3 Reuters
3 3 1 1 1 0 1 25
4 The
Kansas City Star, MO
5 Xinhua, China
6 Voice
of America
7 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
8 The
New York Times
9 CBC, Canada
10 ABC Online,
Australia
11 Reuters
AlertNet
12 The
Christian Science Monitor
We also give an honorable mention to Lebanese
Lobby, Lebanon for being the No.1 source once, for
a news item about Karami forming a new government.
For the detailed list of all 127 sites click at left to join Newsknife’s
Members' Area.
The news items we sampled
Feb 15, Hariri bomb death, outcry against Syria.
Feb 16, Who killed Hariri?
Feb 16, Conflicting stories about blast
Feb 17, Syria on table for Bush talks.
Feb 21, Bush demands action from Syria.
Feb 21, Syria pressured by Bush, Europe and Beirut protesters.
Feb 28, White House: Lebanon opportunity.
Mar 3, Arab leaders urge Syria to leave Lebanon.
Mar 6, US urges Syria to act.
Mar 6, Hezbollah supports Syria
Mar 7, Israel doubts Syria's plan for Lebanon.
Mar 8, Bush sees democracy spreading
Mar 9, Pro-Syrian PM to return to Lebanon.
Mar 9, Karami forms new government.
Mar 9, Bush calls for Syria to pull out troops.
Mar 13, 10,000 Syrian troops await orders.
Mar 14, Thousands march against Syria in Beirut.
Mar 22, Beirut blast kills at least three.
Mar 23, Blast fuels fears of ethnic tension.
Mar 27, Return to violence feared.
Remember, right now you can see the full list of 127 top ranked
news sites covering Lebanon if you click at left to join Newsknife’s
Members' Area.
The 3-month Newsknife membership also lets you see for each news
site, in amazing detail, Newsknife's overall relevance rankings
for the year to date.
Visit Newsknife regularly. We rate the news sites.
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