Posted on 07/21/2009 8:02:36 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
I think this is an example of the distraction that the Internet and the New Media have driven the Old Media to, but it seems that the Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia was so amazed that someone finally paid attention to its work that it had to write a whole story about itself to brag about how many webpage hits it got on a recent story by staffer Lily Gordon.
The L-E was all excited that it got "more than 1,000 comments" and received "712,251 page views" after Gordon's July 14 story headlined, "Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president."
It became obvious Tuesday morning that the story, published on page A3 of that day’s newspaper, had taken on a life of its own.
Between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Tuesday, there were 62,140 unique yearly visitors — or users who had not clicked on the site in the previous 12 months — to the newspaper’s Web site, said Jeff Hendrickson, the Ledger-Enquirer’s senior editor for new media. During the same hour a week earlier, ledger-enquirer.com had 864 unique yearly visitors.
By the end of the day, nearly a half million new readers had visited the newspaper’s Web site. Also, there were 712,251 page views — more than seven times a normal daily volume.
Yes, that is quite a lot of hits, to be sure. But is it news? Is a story about how many hits a story received actual news?
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Seems llike news to me. It is interesting to know that there story generated that much attention. Hopefully it is the start of something.
“The News” has been the focus of “The News” for years, now. In the age of “Information Must Be Entertanment”, even changing a talking-head is fodder for the all media (Katie Couric).
Second rung of the ladder, the entertainment industry (Hollyweird).
So, in terms of importance for the “dialy news” we have:
Primary: Couric to seat in Cronkite’s chair!
Secondary: Angelina Jolie considering new script and role!
Everything else if there is time: Drones Kill Taliban Commander.
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