A decline in The Great Depression media mania

I am endeavoring to track the current media mania of attempting to draw parallels between the current economic situation and The Great Depression. I am doing this by using Google News to count the total number of "news" references to the phrase "The Great Depression" in the previous 24 hours. The good news is that for the second consecutive week there was a decline, from 319 hits a week ago to 308 hits.

• 1/10/2009: 411 hits
• 1/30/2009: 319 hits
• 2/6/2009: 308 hits

-- Jack Krupansky