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Blair and Chelsea Dominate Media Coverage over Howard and Iraq According to the Factiva Insight Media Monitor.


LONDON -- Factiva(R), a Dow Jones Dow Jones

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 and Reuters Company, today announced that education, Iraq and health continued to be the key policy issues discussed by the main parties during the fourth week of campaigning for the 2005 UK General election, securing 18.5% (860) articles, 17.7% (827 articles) and 14.8% (694 articles) respectively.

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 the Factiva Insight - Media Monitor(sm), which is tracking key issues and parties in the UK General Election daily, Iraq is once again high on the political and media agenda. Its percentage of election-related media coverage as linked to the three key parties, more than doubled to 17.7% during the week from 25 April - 1 May, over the previous week. Daily charts showing the analysis are available at http://www.factiva.com/investigative/releases/emm.asp.

Interestingly, while the issue of Iraq appears to be dominating media coverage, additional Factiva research shows that the Chelsea and Liverpool football teams actually secured more mentions than the War in Iraq in the UK print media during the month of the election campaign. For the period from 1 April to 30 April, these terms appeared in the UK print media:
- Tony Blair - 8330 articles
- Chelsea (as related to the football team or the championship) -
  4909 articles
- Michael Howard - 4792 articles
- Liverpool and (as related to the football team or the championship)
  - 4611 articles
- Iraq War or "War in Iraq" - 2426 articles
- Charles Kennedy - 2287 articles


Allegations of lying have also been prominent throughout the month-long election campaign. For the period from 1 April to 30 April, Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953)
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair
 and the terms "truth" or "trust" were mentioned in 1643 articles, compared with the 1108 articles that mentioned Tony Blair and "lie" or "liar". For Michael Howard

For other people named Michael Howard, see Michael Howard (disambiguation).
Michael Howard QC (born 7 July 1941) is a British politician, a Conservative MP since the 1983 General Election for the constituency of Folkestone and Hythe.
, 1007 articles mentioned "truth" or "trust", compared with 684 that mentioned "lie" or "liar". For Charles Kennedy For other persons named Charles Kennedy, see Charles Kennedy (disambiguation).
Charles Peter Kennedy (born 25 November 1959) is a British politician.

From 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006, he was the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the third largest political party in
, 494 articles mentioned "truth" or "trust", compared with 331 that mentioned "lie" or "liar".

The Factiva Insight Media Monitor - 2005 UK Election is available free to journalists and the public. It tracks four key areas of media coverage related to the election, as reported across 750 UK newspapers and business publications, including:
--  Coverage of key policies by party
        --  Policy ownership by party
        --  Coverage of policies by newspaper titles
        --  Share of voice analysis - press coverage by party leader


The charts, which are updated daily, are available at http://www.factiva.com/investigative/releases/emm.asp and can be reproduced in print and online media. The headlines behind the articles can be accessed by clicking on the relevant column or pie of each chart. Charts for the week commencing 25 April 2005 are enclosed below.

The Factiva Insight Media Monitor - 2005 UK Election provides a graphical view of media coverage from Factiva's unrivalled collection of more than 9,000 sources including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires, The Guardian, The Guardian, The
 formerly The Manchester Guardian

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 Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Evening Standard, The Sun, and other key business publications as well as influential Web sites.

For further information about the Factiva Insight Media Monitor - 2005 UK Election, Factiva Insight solutions, or to arrange an interview with Claude Green Claude Green (1961 - June 21 2005) was a gay man from the city of Welch, West Virginia, who died of a heart attack; he is survived by his mother, three sisters, brother and a 19-year old son. , Factiva's Deputy CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , please contact Melanie Surplice on +44 207 542 8837 or Melanie.surplice@factiva.com.

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