Jog your memory from before Christmas when Yemen landed on the terror radar -- was it in there? Geography buffs knew it was a country in Southwest Asia, but the majority of us couldn't have spit out any other facts about the place. Other than the obscure Friend's reference when Chandler bought a plane ticket to Yemen to run away from Janice, I certainly couldn't tell you anything.So, exactly how much has Yemen blown up in the press? Let's visit the Pinyadda index and find out.
In the last 6 months ending on Christmas Eve, Yemen was the topic of 1,524 articles. Not bad. In the 19 days following Christmas Eve, Yemen was the topic of over 2,200 articles.
Woah, hold up, let's do the math: 60 percent of all Yemen focused articles were published in the last 3 weeks.
