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How do you feel about finding and posting two articles published a year apart, both articles highly critical of Free Republic, and both articles were written by the same writer in the same paper?

In the nearly three years I've been a member here, I've posted 631 threads and 6,822 replies. That two of those articles happened to be critical of Free Republic and written by the same author is irrelevant. We ought to know what the MSM is writing about this website, good or bad.

Sometimes if you seek after the negative, that is the only thing you will find.

Not every mention of this website is negative. Some articles straightforwardly quote things people have posted. Those posters would want to know that they're quasi-famous. And, believe it or not, sometimes the MSM even has something nice to say.

I truly stumbled upon this article by accident. Bob J mentioned that John Robinson used to maintain a traffic website for Free Republic, but he couldn't find it. Since I was trying to see if traffic is truly down here or Alexa (the site that supposedly measures web reach) just stinks, I tried to find that website by doing the following Google search: "Free Republic" traffic. This article was on the second page of the Google results. If you don't believe me, perform the search yourself.

I thought it was dead wrong, but interesting, since it somewhat meshed with things discussed on the other thread. So I posted it.