"If this had happened in another week,
it would have been the flavor du jour."
it would have been the flavor du jour."
-- Tennessean Executive Editor Mark Silverman, speaking to Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post, for a story today about why the national news media largely ignored devastating Nashville flooding in favor of the Gulf oil spill and the near-bombing of Times Square.
This can't be correct, can it? In the version I'm reading now, Kurtz writes: "Traffic at the Tennessean's Web site, which averages 20,000 page views a month, soared to 44,000 page views in the first 12 days of May."
ReplyDeleteEven 20,000 page views A DAY would seem way, way too low. Can anyone clarify?
You have just hit on one of the problems. Community papers are not generating that much traffic to warrant the employee time and money put into them. The future for local papers is print.
ReplyDeleteAlexa data shows Nashville.com usage is very low:
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8:25 Try looking at the newspaper site - Tennessean.com. Nashville.com is not the newspaper site. The traffic numbers in the story are way off probably by a factor of a thousand.
ReplyDeleteThat's an incredibly low number. If Silverman is right, corporate might want to take a look to see what the heck he's doing wrong.
ReplyDeleteUnless, folks there haven't discovered the Internet yet. And I don't believe that for a minute.
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