A map:
Researchers extracted the dateline from about 72,000 wire-service news stories from 1994 to 1998 and modified a standard map of the Lower 48 US states (above) to show the size of the states in proportion to the frequency of their appearance in those datelines.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/04/where-news-breaks/217690/
