Most followed news events in 2008

The survey review of the Social Weather Stations showed, Manny Pacquiao and Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez fight and the increases in the prices of the staple food were the most followed news event last year, with 81 percent of respondents who followed the news.

Among the other most followed events of the respondents for 2008 were oil price increases, Pacquiao’s fight against boxer David Diaz, and melamine food scare.

Most Followed Events in 2008
Events	% who followed the news very/somewhat closely
Paquiao vs Marquez	81
Rice price hikes	81
Oil product price hikes (June 2008)	78
Oil product price hikes (December 2008)	75
Pacquiao vs Diaz	73
Melamine food scare	69
Kidnapping of Ces Drilon	66
Movements to oust Arroyo	62
RCBC bank robbery/killings	58
Senate ZTE-NBN investigation	57

Among the events that were followed but by fewer respondents were: the Congress’ move to extend the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform (31%) , Senate hearing on the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (40%), the aborted Memorandum on Agreement on Ancestral Domain or MOA-AD (37% in September 2008 and 41% in December 2008), alleged road insertion by Senator Manny Villar (41%) and the disciplining of the Court of Appeals justices (41%).

source: abs-cbnNews.com