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Faith and the Media -- 1999 Manitoba Media Scan

The final results for Manitoba-based newspapers are now posted.

To see some of the data collected last year, please consult the 1998 Faith and the Media results  page .


Final results are available for:
Brandon Sun
Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg Sun

Ranked in descending order, here are the religious groups as covered by the above newspapers... The table shows the number of items that referred to each group, the percentage that were fully about religion, the percentage of space that was made up by photographs or illustrations, the average size (in square centimetres) of each item, and finally, the percentage of all items in the Manitoban papers that referred to each religious group.


Religion # of items % Full % Photo Average Space % Total
Christianity 259 16.99% 25.92% 120.49   30.47%
Generic 127 25.98% 19.76% 125.53   14.94%
Judaism 93 22.58% 24.32% 132.76   10.94%
Catholicism 86 26.74% 17.99% 121.32   10.12%
United Church 64 20.31% 17.22% 122.84   7.53%
Mennonite 51 23.53% 11.74% 179.42   6.00%
Islam 29 44.83% 22.45% 173.10   3.41%
Anglicanism 23 52.17% 10.70% 125.04   2.71%
Salvation Army 21 19.05% 7.22% 208.18   2.47%
Orthodox 18 33.33% 28.00% 117.07   2.12%
Indigenous 13 15.38% 34.06% 135.18   1.53%
Baptist 11 63.64% 15.76% 208.23   1.29%
Buddhism 9 22.22% 25.42% 64.49   1.06%
Evangelical 9 44.44% 35.83% 119.94   1.06%
Hinduism 8 37.50% 16.64% 83.66   0.94%
Presbyterianism 8 12.50% 0.00% 106.53   0.94%
Sikhism 6 66.67% 0.00% 86.04   0.71%
Mormonism 5 40.00% 39.88% 103.05   0.59%
Secularism 4 50.00% 19.98% 203.00   0.47%
Protestantism 3 66.67% 7.99% 105.14   0.35%
Pentecostalism 2 50.00% 75.07% 267.35   0.24%
Wicca 1 0.00% 0.00% 73.58   0.12%
             
Totals 850 7.545428 4.55947 2981.917   1

Last Updated on 6/21/99
By JOYCE SMITH


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