1. Number of articles about censorship in an America Online news search one day this month: 16
  2. Number of those articles having to do with movies: 11
  3. Amount of speaking fee paid to ABC press critic Jeff Greenfield by New York Power Authority, a utility involved with nuclear power: $10,000
  4. Pages in FBI file on Ernest Hemingway: 122
  5. Pages on Pearl S. Buck, winner of 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature: 300
  6. Pages on artist Georgia O'Keefe: 117
  7. Percent of American cities with a daily newspaper who have only one daily: 98
  8. Number of daily newspapers in London, England: 14
  9. Number of daily newspapers in Rome, Italy: 18
  10. Number of daily newspapers independently owned in 1945: 80
  11. Number of daily newspapers owned by a corporation in 1986: 72
  12. Percent of articles in the New York Times and Washington Post based on the words of public officials: 78
  13. Number of Americans who watch ABC's Nightline on a given weeknight: 10,000,000
  14. Percent of U.S. guests on Nightline who were professionals, government officials or corporate representatives: 80
  15. Percent who were from "public interest" constituencies such as peace or environmental groups, consumer organizations, etc.: 5
  16. Percent of Nightline guests who were white: 92
  17. Percent who were men: 89
  18. Percent of Americans who can name one member of the Supreme Court: 29
  19. Percent who could name TV star of "The People's Court," Judge Joseph Wapner: 54
  20. Number of school board members in 1993 that Citizens for Excellence in Education, a Christian right­wing group, helped get elected: 6000
  21. Number of 1993 school board seats the right wing fundamentalist Christian Coalition campaigned for in New York City: 288
  22. Amount of Small Business Administration loan for Whitewater Development that later went into default: $300,000
  23. SBA loan George Bush's son Neil received for his new company, Apex Energy, and never repaid: $2,350,000
  24. Percent of freshmen entering college in the fall of 1992 who believed employers should be allowed to require employees or job applicants to take drug tests: 82.4
  25. Number of different books published in 1988 in the United States: 55,483
  26. Dollars per second in worldwide military expenditures: $32,725
  27. Average American's life expectancy, in days: 27,722
  28. Pounds of food eaten by the average American in a lifetime: 100,874
  29. Percent of men who thought of themselves as beautiful, very attractive, or attractive: 42
  30. Percent of women who thought of themselves as beautiful, very attractive, or attractive: 28
  31. Cost to get an imposter to take the CPA exam for you: $40,000
  32. Coupons redeemed per household in 1992 in the U.S.: 81
  33. Coupons redeemed per household in the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and France: 23
  34. Percent of trees cut down which are turned into paper boxes or tissues: 40
  35. Cost of the Reebok Step, a single step designed for exercise purposes: $120

Index Sources

1-2: America Online, March 10, 1994

3: EXTRA!, a publication of FAIR, July­August, 1993

4-6: Dangerous Dossiers by Herbert Mitgang

7-11: The Media Monopoly by Ben H. Bagdikian

12-19: Unreliable Sources, by Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon

20-23: Mother Jones, April 1994

24: The Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac, August 25, 1993

25-28: One Million, by Hendrik Hertzberg

29-30: Health Magazine, May/June, 1993

31: U Magazine, January/February, 1994

32-33: Ithaca Journal, 10/27/93

34-35: Utne Reader, March/April, 1994