March 18, 2003
The Guardian Story: What's Left for US Media?
Believe it or not. According to Nielsen/NetRatings, 49 percent of the Guardian's 1.3 million unique visitors (that's the number of different visitors, not the site's total traffic) in January originated from the Americas. Likewise, Nielsen said a quarter of the visitors to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's website in January were from the Americas.
"Several commentators have pointed out that since the push for war in Iraq really began picking up steam, the websites of news sources outside the US have seen a huge influx of American readers," Plastic noted. "Meanwhile, CNN online actually saw a readership decline between December 2002 and January 2003 (though most all news websites have seen readership spikes since then).
"Leander Khaney, the writer of the Wired piece, speculates that the mainstream U.S. media is simply being far too uncritical in its coverage of the Administration and the impending war, and so U.S. citizens are finding it necessary to turn elsewhere if they want a truly fair and balanced (cough, cough) take on the matter. Even U.S. media stars such as Dan Rather have complained about U.S. media self-censorship in the aftermath of September 11th.
What's left for America, with all of your very unfairly policy?
Posted at March 18, 2003 10:38 PM | Web
