Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Robert Thompson (media scholar)" in English language version.
On the day the first "Survivor" concluded in 2000, Thompson did 47 media interviews. On the next day, he did 40 more.
At The New York Times alone, an archive search shows Thompson quoted more than 40 times in the past four years. In the past year, Dispatch reporters have gone to him eight times while the Associated Press has quoted him close to 20.