July 28, 2006
A splendid example of a lousy graph: look at how "listeners [are] leaving traditional radio for the new audio".
Probably not.
Always Usually (thanks, Kerry) start a graph at the origin. And always "quote the data in context", meaning, in this case, provide as long a time series as possible so the reader can evaluate whether the "big" change you are illustrating is actually big or just random.