From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2006:
Among the 1,216 newspapers archived at News-Library.com, the
word "terrorism" appeared in under 2% of all coverage of "animal
rights" until after the 2001 Al Qaida attacks on New York City and
Washington D.C.--but "terrorism" has been mentioned in more than 6%
of "animal rights" coverage ever since.
Total coverage of "animal rights" topped 6,000 articles for
the first time in 2000, and has remained higher than in any year
before 2000.
Year AR in AR linked
articles to "terror"
1980 - 10 0 0%
1981 - 18 0 0%
1982 - 39 1 2%
1983 - 84 2 2%
1984 - 212 5 2%
1985 - 454 4 1%
1986 - 594 7 1%
1987 - 1,058 12 1%
1988 - 1,604 27 2%
1989 - 2,881 31 1%
1990 - 4,979 102 2%
1991 - 4,691 52 1%
1992 - 4,530 41 1%
1993 - 4,639 46 1%
1994 - 4,133 23 0%
1995 - 3,808 73 2%
1996 - 5,081 46 1%
1997 - 5,385 124 2%
1998 - 5,587 73 1%
1999 - 5,871 145 3%
2000 - 6,450 74 1%
2001 - 5,664 263 5%
2002 - 5,900 342 6%
2003 - 6,691 423 6%
2004 - 6,262 358 6%
2005 - 6,618 483 7%
2006 - 6,629 392 6%
