One of my associates is fond of 'sharing' Crikey articles with me, despite my lack of enthusiasm.

I am sure Crikey would generate much more interest if it talked about the matters of real importance to the average Aussie battler. Below are graphs from Google’s trend analysis (a useful tool they have introduced with their Election 2007 coverage) that demonstrates Cricket (seasonal), Education, Football (seasonal) and Health are the items that people are really looking for information about. The lower graph indicates the corresponding number of news articles written about these categories (clearly the media in general need to have a hard look at themselves, particularly in regard to Cricket).

education health football cricket

I can put these into further perspective by correlating them against the typical “big issues” that get talked of by Crikey and others. These happen to be the ones that Google has as default options. Here is the graph of these items against each other.

interest rates climate change economy industrial relations

This looks impressive! But when we throw in cricket we begin to see how important these things are to the average Joe.

interest rates climate change economy industrial relations cricket

And yet there are soo maaany articles written in the news about the economy.

Power to the people, I say! Let them have Cricket, not Crikey!

Libera Veritas!