CNN/Aaron Brown Teaser: Free Republic shown

CNN | 2/14/05 | CNN

[cyn]

Aaron Brown teaser about blogs just now shows Free Republic home page.

Go freepers!

BTW, Matt Drudge was great on H & C last hour, and elaborating/clarifying on the role of the internet. Best to ya, Matt.

[cyn]

lol, I wouldn't have settled here if FoxNews had something better than Michael Jackson crap on -- wonder how their ratings do at 10?

[hole_n_one]

From this thread.......

[NormsRevenge]

Run DeaNC 2005

[Gumption]

Yeah. Half their numbers are FReepers just "checking the opposition", I bet.

[Theresawithanh]

Neat! I always knew that FR rocks, and DU, well, you know! Just a bunch of angry losers, with the very occasional somewhat sane voice in there (probably a lousy FReeper troll!)

[Gumption]

That's a great shot.

[mountaineer]

it's more likely to be a hit piece

Agreed. Sometimes publicity is not a good thing, especially when an obviously biased entity like CNN is doing it.

[cyn]

let people come here and see for themselves. Matt pointed out on H & C how behind the web story the OM* is, that internet news (as they call it, "blogging") is a "new" story.

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*Old Media.

[armymarinemom]

This should be interesting. Lets see if Brown slams blogs as bad as Beckel just did on Fox. Beckel sounds a bit afraid of blogs.

[Callahan]

Keep in mind that half of DU's traffic is lurking Freepers. I probably spend more time there than on FR.

[longtermmemmory]

heads up we are next.


I predict they will just do Aaron Brown will just do a "no controls,editors" hash job.

I predict they will NOT identify blog vs forum.

I predict he will not talk about how the MSM is simply NOT OFFERING THE STORIES THAT MATTER.

(nor will he mention that CNN ratings are in the toilet and FNC kicks their postteriors)

[Popman]

I just checked out that site. It is very interesting.

What is Reach? Reach measures the number of users. Reach is typically expressed as the percentage of all Internet users who visit a given site. So, for example, if a site like yahoo.com has a reach of 28%, this means that if you took random samples of one million Internet users, you would on average find that 280,000 of them visit yahoo.com. Alexa expresses reach as number of users per million. Alexa's one-week and three-month average reach are measures of daily reach, averaged over the specified time period. The reach rank is a ranking of all sites based solely on their reach. The three-month changes are determined by comparing a site's current reach and reach rank with its values from three month ago.

[longtermmemmory]

must be like visiting a zoo.

(i wonder if that spike was the time Rush metioned them.)

[FreedomCalls]

And this one too:

[Mannaggia l'America]

That does look pretty. DU's numbers are scraping bottom like whale poop.

DU has a nice web site -- TO POOP ON!

[cyn]

hey, mountaineer -- HOOOAHHH! I'd say we're up for the challenge! Let truth and freedom ring!

...and, I'm wearing my flame-proof jammies!

[Theresawithanh]

You guys are right, it probably is some of us going over to visit. I can't help it, though, because it is SO entertaining. I'll try to wean myself off, and just read the DU FUnnies.

[thoughtomator]

Drunk FReepers having a belly laugh probably.

[longtermmemmory]

new word "Blog Swarm"?

seems to just be a word for mob.

[cyn]

here we go. HEADS UP

"PEOPLE who spew their opinions ...."