Posted on 12/11/2014 9:18:29 AM PST by PROCON
A flock of (relatively) new conservative media sites have gained attention in the mainstream-ish media over the past few weeks, a function of their increased role in driving political attention and, in some cases, their savvy in redirecting Facebook's traffic hose toward themselves. Bloomberg's Dave Weigel notes a series of scoops from the Washington Free Beacon (largely focused on Hillary Clinton); at Slate, Betsy Woodruff explains Twitchy. At the Awl, John Herrman noted the rise of the Independent Journal Review, which "landed big" on Facebook.
For all of this success, for all of the novelty of new sites with sharp designs and well-considered social strategies, publishers will note that there's something to be said for another genre of political news site: the old-school, poorly designed link blog.
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I visit both of those sites, daily, for a few minutes, but they don’t, IMHO, hold a candle to FR !
1) Fox News: 158
2) Wall Street Journal: 214
3) The Drudge Report: 437
4) The Blaze: 565
5) New York Post: 889
6) Breitbart: 1,344
7) Newsmax: 1,729
8) WorldNetDaily: 2,103
9) Independent Journal Review 2,147
10) The Daily Caller: 2,240
11) The Washington Times: 2,438
12) National Review: 3,621
13) TownHall: 5,252
14) Free Republic: 5,393
15) PJ Media/Instapundit: 5,586
16) Cybercast News Service: 5,811
17) Investor’s Business Daily: 5,828
18) Hot Air: 5,877
19) Twitchy: 6,102
20) The Weekly Standard: 6,135
I remember Lucianne starting her website towards the end of the Clinton impeachment fiasco. I got banned in the first couple of months and have never been curious enough to see what’s changed. I’m surprised it still exists - maybe she has different moderators now.
Fox News and WSJ are Conservative websites???
I usually just read the summary portion, at the very beginning. The articles that are posted aren’t that different from the articles posted here, but FR commentary seems to be more interesting, to me.
That would seem to support your experience, that posters are more restrained. Thanks for your reply.
I go to Lucianne a lot because some of their members find great news articles to post, some on pretty obscure sites i would have never seen. Of course same here.
Probably half the articles I post here is something I found there first and crosspost here. (I also find some gems on ace of spades blog)
The discussion is relatively tame because the rules don’t allow you to address each other directly, except by posting #.
Thanks, I remember seeing that post.
To the right of Attila the Hun, are we :-)
Lucianne Goldberg?
No disrespect, but does anyone still click her site?
Its been years since I toured the place. All articles that I find on FR. Along with pesky ads and cookies.
Everybody got banned. That’s how I got here.
I never considered Drudge conservative, just honest, without adding bias......he’s a hero to me.....
I’m somewhat amazed at how effective regime affiliate Google is at searching FR.
But that may be an indicator of interest from the regime.
Many FREEPERS are proud to wear a t-shirt that says—
I WAS BANNED
BY LUCIANNE
I really don’t like her site. The number of ads is ridiculous, distracting and annoying.
I WAS BANNED
BY LUCIANNE too
and glad, would have never discovered FR
I completely forgot about Lucianne...she's still around, eh?
I was banned in October of 2004. My offense? Inquiring about another user, who had also been banned. Happily at FR ever since.
DITTO-But I almost never go to Lucianne
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