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Issue 3.06 - Jun 1995
Electric Word

News by Numbers
Andrew Tyndall has a very modern career: he's a professional news junkie. The New York-based English expatriate watches all three TV network newscasts daily, noting to the second how much play each story receives. After feeding the numbers into his database, he faxes his one-sheet Tyndall Weekly nationwide to 100 subscribers, including universities, trade associations, networks, and amateur news junkies hungry for a microfix. Each issue offers a quantitative top-10 story list for the prior week, along with an analysis that lies somewhere between barbed commentary and stupid anchor tricks. During the eight heaviest weeks of Tonyamania, notes Tyndall, the networks gave the skater 263 minutes of air time, while in their respective eight-week spans, the Berlin Wall's demise got 252 minutes and San Francisco's '89 earthquake netted a meager 213. ADT Research: +1 (212) 674 8913.

Marc Spiegler