Posted on 08/10/2020 8:02:03 AM PDT by Beave Meister
It’s a news website run out of a house in Bloomington, Indiana, by a secretive internet whiz who had a bit part in the classic Middle America movie Breaking Away. A mention of Citizen Free Press often brings a shrug even in news-hungry Washington.
But overnight, the site that calls itself an alternative to the once-conservative Drudge Report has shot past competitors and is now poised to dominate the right-leaning media space.
"It's fantastic. I love it. I'm breaking every rule in the modern digital news business with no social media, no Facebook, no branding, no email, and the site is succeeding beyond my wildest dreams,” said the one-man operator who goes by “Kane."
According to the web traffic counter SimilarWeb, he recorded 6.35 million visits and 45 million page views last month. That’s just a sliver of Drudge’s numbers, but it puts Citizen Free Press in the top of conservative news sites for page views. Plus, visitors stay a remarkable 17 minutes. And it happened during a period when CFP was briefly knocked off Google.
The shift by the Drudge Report from seemingly conservative, pro-President Trump, to anti-Trump, has opened the door to several conservative news aggregators to grow, and Citizen Free Press has jumped the furthest fastest.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
That's the only one I go to. I've never even visited Drudge.
As much as I dislike giving Drudge any traffic, I still visit once every coue of days just to see what his latest panic du jour is.
Otherwise, it’s FR and CFP (although the latter’s reliance on Twitter is an annoyance)...
Yes...WOW!
I used to show Breaking Away to my HS students just before Summer vacation.
“Are you really gonna shave your legs?”
“All the Italians do it.”
“Some country; the women don’t shave theirs.”
Citizen Free Press layout needs to fix their to close spacing of fonts, they overlap when they have 2 lines. Looks fine in IE11 but getting to close in Chrome and in Firefox they overlap. He should use percentage % instead of px for font size. I use Firefox.
Also way too many links before the title.
I know a staunch Conservative in Bloomington . I wouldn’t be surprised if it was him.
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