Bush-Bashers Taken to Task
Candace de Russy • January 20, 2010 • Uncategorized
I’ve done a bit of “Rethinking Bush” — specifically from the standpoint of the MSM’s systematic bashing of him for so many years — over at the vibrant new site, Big Journalism.
The antidote to liberal media bias, I conclude, continues to be popular resistance and the flourishing of the samizdat media, such as our own Democracy Project.
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Dr de Russy wrote:
Really? OK, I’ll get rough here and ask: just how many people actually read Democracy Project? You don’t have a site meter up that I can see, but looking through the first page, I see exactly one article with any comments at all, and it has just one. You recently celebrated your one millionth page view — in six years — but you are actually celebrating traffic from much earlier in the site history; you have just a hair over 85,000 page views in the last year.
Why should I care? Democracy Project was the first website to include my own poor site on its blogroll, back in 2005, and I still appreciate that, but y’all need to do more to publicize DP.
Dana,
According to site meter, which is prominently posted at the bottom of the second column on the far right of the page, we have on average 133 unique visitors per day. You have 314 unique visitors per day — wonderful. I applaud your efforts. That would mean your traffic is roughly double, perhaps a bit more. I believe Dr. de Russy was speaking in the larger sense of the blogosphere when she mentioned our site, which she would do as she is Chairman. But as you well know, Dr. de Russy is a frequent contributor to much larger blogs than ours, including NRO, American Thinker, etc.
I appreciate the kick in the pants to do more with Democracy Project and I know you are a fan. But I am also of the persuasion that it’s less volume that matters, than who reads you. It’s a bit like my favorite country-rock artist Gram Parsons, while few bought his records, what mattered is those who did, i.e. The Eagles, The Rolling Stones, etc. which is the reason why I suspect your Technorati score is a mere 9 points higher than ours despite your superior traffic. Or why our Alexa ratings are nearly identical.
Perhaps if we link to each other more often we can help each other grow and build a stronger friendship and alliance?
Best,
Brent
Mr Tantillo wrote:
Agreed!