ABSTRACT
In the three year period after the disaster, a total of 4.928 articles were found. After exclusion of announcements of radio and television programs, and articles in which the disaster was mentioned but was not part of the storyline, 3.927 articles remained as our corpus of analysis (that is 986 articles or 20% were excluded). The local newspaper from the disaster area published considerably more articles than the other newspapers (local n = 2.679, national n = 1.248).
