| Maybe I'm a little to obsessive with the original source thing... I was going to complain again about the link being nytimes.com instead of the original from gigaom.com (From the guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." ) But then this really leapt out at me: "Yahoo News is the No. 1 news and information site in the country, with more than 50 million monthly unique readers,
ahead of The New York Times network’s 45 million." Wow, that says as much about The New York Times as it does about Yahoo News. Does the broad readership of the NYT surprise anyone else? The New York Times certainly was big 15 years ago and by some measures, the number one paper by reputation, but no where near this big. A few things that made me really surprised at 45 million: 1) Like all the other newspapers, it suddenly needs a new business model. Isn't everyone going to blogs, aggregators, and their niche sources for their news? I know part of this is the inability to monetize the online readership in the same way as their traditional readership, but still. 2) NYT is written at a fairly sophisticated level and its liberal slant doesn't really appeal to a lot of people. Its understandable obsession with its hometown, New York City, both draws, but also repels a lot of people. 3) Hey, what 'bout CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, etc? Those seem much more generally appealing than the NYT. Thoughts? |
About half the country has voted Democrat in the last three Presidential elections. The Congress is now >50% Democrat as well.
Conservative voices are just the loudest and most annoying.