[editor-surveyor]

"Keep in mind that in the late nineties when we were smaller and little known, probably more people in DC staff positions read items here than do now."

Don't kid yourself, this place gets picked over with a fine tooth comb.

[KC Burke]

I don't doubt the picking over but there was a frantic bomb disposal unit flavor to the old days that seems missing now and my general point is made regardless of my less than perfect account of the circumstances: We can't expect to exceed them in viewer impressions, to use the media term.