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It is a remarkable proposition, yes, but the cold hard data backs it up:

	Year	Total mentions	Mentions per day	# of all-Tesh newspapers
	1985	6	0.02	0
	1986	12	0.03	0
	1987	10	0.03	0
	1988	36	0.10	0
	1989	39	0.11	0
	1990	44	0.12	0
	1991	145	0.40	0
	1992	369	1.01	0
	1993	379	1.04	0
	1994	464	1.27	0
	1995	999	2.74	0
	1996*	1998	5.47	0
	1997*	3996	10.95	0
	1998*	7992	21.90	0
	1999*	15,984	43.79	0
	2000*	31,968	87.58	0
	2001*	63,936	175.17	1
	2002*	127,872	350.33	2
	2003*	255,744	700.67	4
	2004*	511,488	1401.34	7
	2005*	1,022,976	2,802.67	14
	2006*	2,045,952	5,605.35	28
	2007*	4,091,904	11,210.70	56
	2008*	8,183,808	22,421.39	112
	2009*	16,367,616	44,842.78	224
	2010*	32,735,232	89,685.57	448
	2011*	65,470,464	179,371.13	897
	2012*	130,940,928	358,742.27	1794
	* Projection based on current data