{"id":7811,"date":"2006-06-29T12:59:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T16:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7811"},"modified":"2006-06-29T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T16:59:06","slug":"is-era-of-right-wing-site-popularity-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/is-era-of-right-wing-site-popularity-over\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Is Era of Right-Wing Site Popularity Over?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like to keep an eye on Fox News’ TV ratings<\/a>, and smile a little when they drop, so this new (subscriber-only) article<\/a> from U.S. Politics Today also caught my eye.<\/p>\n

Joe Rothstein reviewed web traffic for a number of top outlets for online conservative commentary and found that the leading voices are still talking, “but fewer people seem to be listening — at least on the Internet.”<\/p>\n

During the past 3 months, for instance, rushlimbaugh.com traffic ranking has declined 18%…. Even Fox News, that gold standard of right-wing media, is down 13%. […]<\/p>\n

You would think all of the attention the promotion of [Ann Coulter’s] new book has given her would raise visitor numbers at her web site, anncoulter.com. Nope. Traffic there is down 10%.<\/p>\n

The audience chart reversal seems to be common across the entire right-wing side of the Internet viewing board. Billoreilly.com has dropped 40% in the past 3 months. Townhall.com, that once popular center for right-wing news and commentary, has fallen by 24%. WashingtonTimes.com is down by 27%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rothstein notes that some of this could be due to a drop off in interest for political sites, but adds that Moveon.org is up 13% over the same period.<\/p>\n

Rothstein asks, “Is the era of right-wing site popularity over?” It’s hard to say without a more thorough review of a larger sample. Moreover, Rothstein used Alexa, which is hardly the most reliable system for measurement. That said, given the cursory results, coupled by Fox News’ drop-off<\/a> in viewers, coupled by Republicans’ poor poll numbers, it’s at least mildly encouraging, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like to keep an eye on Fox News’ TV ratings, and smile a little when they drop, so this new (subscriber-only) article from U.S. Politics Today also caught my eye. Joe Rothstein reviewed web traffic for a number of top outlets for online conservative commentary and found that the leading voices are still talking, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}