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Fifth Column |
Cindy Sheehan: Proven irrelevant? |
2006-07-16 |
--blogger Steve Janke, "Angry in the Great White North" OK, I'm going to do something here that some people won't like. I'm going to give Cindy Sheehan a huge boost. How? By linking to her blog. Why should it matter? From her Sitemeter: Total: 332 Average Per Day: 5 Average Visit Length: 1:13 Last Hour: 0 Today: 20 This Week: 34 Five a day? Has she become so irrelevant that you can count the number of people who come to read her writings using the fingers on one hand? Over the last 30 days, her peak traffic was 44 hits on the June 18. At the time I write this, her day's traffic is 20. . . . Her website was created by Theron Parlin, a part-time web designer, so I would doubt this is technical problem. I just expected something else. A couple of thousand hits a day from adoring fans at Code Pink and elsewhere. But a couple of dozen? Maybe this is an example of the difference between the media and the people they serve. Cindy Sheehan still makes it in the papers and on TV with her fasts and her foreign trips to visit the likes of Hugo Chavez. But in the blogosphere, where you choose what news you want to read, people are going elsewhere. Interesting. |
Posted by:Mike |
#7 Scrappleface!!!! Thats what the site is! HAHAHA |
Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-07-16 15:39 |
#6 ...a B&W photo of some woman on the verge of crying... That's Cindy. I'm not entirely convinced the site is not a parody. |
Posted by: Angie Schultz 2006-07-16 15:04 |
#5 It's a Steve-alanche! |
Posted by: Clavimble Spomoger8840 2006-07-16 13:44 |
#4 Her stats are surging: VISITS Total 475 Average Per Day 8 Average Visit Length 1:39 Last Hour 22 Today 132 This Week 53 |
Posted by: Mike 2006-07-16 13:42 |
#3 The media has most cleverly created the false impression that she has a much bigger audience than what she has. |
Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-07-16 12:08 |
#2 Good grief, what a pathetic place she has. I held my nose and clicked through to have my eyes assailed by a B&W photo of some woman on the verge of crying, biting her lip - yuk. I then scrolled all the way down, there's about a dozen entries on the page, and three of them have comments. Three. One entry has one comment, another entry has, well, one comment, but the third entry has a veritable snowstorm of reader involvement - it has two comments. Four comments in total on a blog of a woman who is getting huge amounts of MSM coverage. IMHO, Steve is spot-on, when people choose, they tend to choose to ignore this woman... |
Posted by: Tony (UK) 2006-07-16 11:53 |
#1 and the five who visit do so to get information to mock her.... |
Posted by: Frank G 2006-07-16 11:40 |