OMG LIBERAL MEDIA AT IT AGAIN!

[Denny Crane]

And with drudgereport added:

 

[barfo]

Seems like that data disproves your thesis. DailyKos amounts to approximately zero, and Huffington is well below NY times (and presumably well below all the other major media also).

barfo

 

[barfo]

A good read:
http://www.convinceandconvert.com/d...-blogs-are-killing-the-new-york-times-online/

Interesting data, but the leap from the data to his conclusions is something Bob Beamon would be proud of.

barfo

 

[Denny Crane]

http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/11045.imc

The long tail of the Web. Apply it to lots of tiny sites and you get the effect of a really really really big one. What happens if you apply it to fewer but still lots of loonie left sites?

 

[barfo]

http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/11045.imc

The long tail of the Web. Apply it to lots of tiny sites and you get the effect of a really really really big one. What happens if you apply it to fewer but still lots of loonie left sites?

I'm not sure your use of "loony" and "loonie" is really promoting an honest discussion here, but in any case, if they really add up to a really really really big site you should be able to show some numbers that hint at that. So far you haven't. In fact the only site you've identified that has anything but a completely negligible audience is Huffington Post, and that's still pretty tiny.

There's just no evidence - or at least you haven't provided any - that leftist web sites were a major source of information for the average voter in the past election.

Don't get me wrong, it would be fine with me if it were true. It doesn't seem remotely plausible, however.

barfo

 

[Denny Crane]

NYTimes by itself is a really huge leftist WWW site.

Add in Wapo and hupo and you're adding 50% of NYTimes' traffic:

 

[Denny Crane]

Add in latimes and you've nearly doubled NYTimes viewership:

 

[barfo]

Add in latimes and you've nearly doubled NYTimes viewership:

Why not add in ESPN, too? Hollinger is from Portland, he's probably a leftist.

If you are going to call the NY Times, Wash. Post, and LA Times "loony left" sites, then maybe you have a point. But I'm not sure what that point is. You started this discussion saying that the unwashed masses got their information online, from sites like Dailykos and HuffPost. Now you want me to believe that those are examples of a set that also includes the LA Times, NY Times, and Washington Post?

Some of these things are not like the others.

barfo

 

[Eastoff]

OH GOD!!! MORE CHARTS!!! MMmmmm

 

[Denny Crane]

Why not add in ESPN, too? Hollinger is from Portland, he's probably a leftist.

If you are going to call the NY Times, Wash. Post, and LA Times "loony left" sites, then maybe you have a point. But I'm not sure what that point is. You started this discussion saying that the unwashed masses got their information online, from sites like Dailykos and HuffPost. Now you want me to believe that those are examples of a set that also includes the LA Times, NY Times, and Washington Post?

Some of these things are not like the others.

barfo

I didn't put in sites like Washington Times or WSJ for a reason.