2005 media figures

Figures below are for the number of stories featuring the phrase "freedom of information act" during 2005

January 2005: 175
February 2005: 264
March 2005: 198
April 2005: 90
May 2005: 90
June 2005: 92
July 2005: 78
August 2005: 82
September 2005: 72
October 2005: 91
November 2005: 86
Decemeber 2005:113

By National newspaper:

Daily Mail: 141
Daily Star: 14
Daily Telegraph: 105
Express: 122
FT: 86
Guardian: 198
Independent: 141
Independent on Sunday: 37
Mail on Sunday: 42
Mirror: 80
News of the World: 35
Observer: 44
People: 8
The Sun: 42
Sunday Express: 36
Sunday Mirror : 13
Sunday Telegraph: 26
Sunday Times: 130
The Times: 178

(taken from the full text index database Lexis Nexis)

The figures showing an "averaging out" of interest in the National press with a fairly steady flow of stories appearing after the early peak and after the realities of using the Act have hit home. The figures for the individual papers show that all have shown some intrest and it is not just confined to the "liberal media" we may have expected.