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2004-10-15 Fifth Column

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Posted by growler 2004-10-15 2:44:52 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What's a Blogger? Is it like a bugger oly blocking?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-10-15 4:03:09 PM|| 2004-10-15 4:03:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 But why has MSNBCâs Keith Olbermann started a blog about politics? Almost no one reads them.

That'll still be more people that watch his TV show.

Posted by tu3031 2004-10-15 4:06:53 PM|| 2004-10-15 4:06:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Nothing to worry about. Be cool. We're not here.

Posted by Francis Marion 2004-10-15 4:13:37 PM|| 2004-10-15 4:13:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Using this same logic, the influence of Washington, D.C. is inconsequential in the world. It's land mass is tiny, and the few thousands who visit it each day only represent the smallest fraction of the world's population.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-10-15 4:14:53 PM|| 2004-10-15 4:14:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 650 %. That means the Washington Post, one of the Nations most important papers,with a staff of reporters and editors and photographers, etc, and over 100 years of history gets only 6 and a half times as much traffic as a Daily Kos. That my friends, is amazing news. Flabbergasting. How do you suppose Kos or Instapundit compares to a lesser paper? Or more relevantly to an opinon magazine, like Harpers, the New Republic or National Review? As for the tiny percentages of overall hits, well who cares? Most hits are to Yahoo, Amazon, local business, porn sites, etc. Whats relevant is blogs compared to news and political opinions hits overall - and im sure that looks much more impressive.

Note "Their collective influence seems to be because a few (writers) have become political insiders and are successfully reaching other key, intensive niche audiences"

But isnt that what mags like Harpers, the Nation, TNR, NRO, TAP, American Spect, Atlantic Monthly, Washington Monthy and Weekly Standard have always done? Does the above guy really mean to suggest that the masses watching the headlines on CBS or ABC over dinner is more important than the debates among the opinion mags? Is he ignorant, for example, of the way the networks have historically followed the news lead of the NYT, despite its having a tiny audience relative to the networks? And of the influence of the opinion mags on the NYT and WaPo? Within that large world, blogs are already important - they find stuff that sympathetic people in MSM can use.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-10-15 4:23:50 PM|| 2004-10-15 4:23:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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