In last week’s update, I included a survey on the media’s coverage of the Mark Twitchell trial. As of this morning a total of 73 responses were recorded. Here are the results:

It’s the reasons why people are or are not paying attention that I was really interested in, however:

Clearly there’s a difference between paying attention and wanting to pay attention. The good news for the media is that no respondents said the coverage was of low quality, and only one suggested it wasn’t being delivered appropriately.

I know there are plenty of people out there who want to read about the trial. I am not one of those people!

A total of 17 respondents (23%) would describe themselves as a member of the media. Just 4 respondents (5%) did not identify themselves as residents in the Edmonton region.

Twitchell Tweets

I decided to look at Twitchell-related tweets from Edmontonians since March 1. It’s interesting to see the weekends so clearly defined:

Here are the top twenty Twitchell tweeters:

1. edmontonsun
2. ctvedmonton
3. KaraokeFanatic
4. BillFortierCTV
5. SimonOstler
6. bengelinas
7. RyanTumilty
8. stalbertgazette
9. ETownMickey
10. edmontonjournal
11. GlobalEdmonton
12. MacsTheWord
13. iNews880
14. EdmontonCourts
15. metroedmonton
16. Jasmine09
17. lindork
18. EdmJrnlCitydesk
19. YEG_Shannon
20. cbcedmonton

So who’s talking about Twitchell on Twitter? The media, as you can see. Those 20 users account for 69.8% of all local Twitchell-related tweets.