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CARE uses a media monitoring service to count the number the crisis gets mentioned in mainstream media sources. Then it compares that number to the number of times more popular stories get mentioned.<\/p>\n\n<p>Here are some examples from their annual report: There were over 273,000 online articles about the new <em>Barbie<\/em> film, while the abuse of women&rsquo;s rights in every country in the report received next to no coverage. The crisis in Angola received the least media attention in 2023. Despite 7.3 million people in the country in desperate need of humanitarian aid, it received just 1,049 media mentions.<\/p>\n\n<p>By comparison, 273,421 articles were written about the new iPhone 15. Taylor Swift&rsquo;s world tour garnered 163,368 articles while Prince Harry&rsquo;s book <em>Spare<\/em> got 215,084. 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