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In an exclusive global analysis performed by the Global Language Monitor, the top news stories of 2010 are the South African World Cup, the iPad launch, the rise of China, U.S. healthcare reform, and Wikileaks. The Tea Party movement, the fall of Obama, the Gulf oil spill, Haitian earthquake, and the political anger and rage witnessed in the major western economies, followed. The list is notable for two firsts: the first time a sporting event tops the list and the first time a product launch contends for the top spot.

The globe has witnessed the major news sources of the 20th century fragment into thousands of micro-focused outlets in the twenty-first. At the same time, the major global media are playing an ever-more important role when major events occur, as aggregate communities for shared experiences. For these reasons we performed two independent analyses. The first focused on the number of citations found over the course of the year on the Internet, blogosphere, and social media sites. The second focused on the top 75,000 print and electronic media sites. Finally, the two analyses were normalized with the final results appearing here.

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