Number of articles on the mad cow affair published in the 7 Italian newspapers with the highest nationwide circulations by date of publication, March 20 to May 10, 1996. The filled areas of the bars represent the number of articles appearing on the front page. The arrow indicates the date of publication of the article on new-variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease cases in The Lancet. The asterisks indicate the dates on which newspapers were not published because of a strike (March 30) or national holidays (April 8 and May 2).
