Reply #37: It got many times more coverage than this flap

[karynnj]

Look at google's timeline - you can see that this was basically a one day story peaking at about 75 articles (I think in one hour)
http://news.google.com/news/more?q=Robert+Gibbs&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7SKPB_en&um=1&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&ncl=djSy6CazWw6NYUMpVoGwhKTHVusUM&ei=XOdiTKqEDoSClAfThKDpCg&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&cd=1&resnum=1&ved=0CCQQqgIoADAA from an early google page there were 334 articles in total

Now look at the aid package getting signed - again a basically one day story peaking at about 750 articles. http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&cf=all&ncl=d9wKFzO-DMlivlMHe0m3VqXmGP5RM Here there were 2201 articles.