OTB Mentions: MSNBC and The Hotline
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James Joyner | Friday, April 15, 2005 |
For the second straight day, a post I’ve made has caught the attention of non-blog media. Jeff Jarvis mentioned my post on Bill Frist’s alignment with televangelists on MSNBC’s “Connected: Coast to Coast.” Ian Schwartz, The Political Teen has the video.
National Journal’s insider roundup, The Hotline (subscription only) also quoted my comments on the piece. Thanks to Jim Burton at Public Opinion Strategies for bringing it to my attention again (it’s a superb source but priced for corporations rather than individuals).
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I think I did too - When I checked my referrers a bit ago I had a couple of hits from there. Too bad it's $20 for a day pass :-/
For the second straight day, a post I've made has caught the attention of non-blog media.
Technically, since it was mentioned by Jeff Jarvis, it doesn't qualify as "non-blog media."
Well, it's always a blogger giving the roundup in that segment. But TV isn't a blog. ;)
How was the traffic impact of MSNBC compared to CNN?
I imagine Hotline was a good spike. A previous website I was involved in got mentioned in Hotline, HotlineScoop (which was the free website version back then) and National Journal within a week. It was a huge traffic spike.
Well, technically, your post caught the attention of a blogger who has a non-blog media outlet. If your blog had been mentioned by, say, Tim Russert on meet the press (or face the nation or whatever the name of that show is), then *that* would be "non-blog media" ;-)
Being mentioned on CNN brings you more traffic.
But I think James meant being mentioned on somewhere not in the blogosphere.
James: Virtually nothing from the Hotline either day in terms of traffic. Most people apparently read the printed version rather than the hyperlinked one.
Ian and Bryan: Right. It's hard to determine the traffic impact of the TV mentions, of which there've now been quite a few with CNN and MSNBC doing regular blogosphere roundup segments. None that I've noticed, really.
Either way, it's clear that blogs are catching non-blog media attention in a big way these days. I think there's a disruption in the distribution chain of news, and the CNN's and MSNBC's of the world are trying to bring that disruption back under control.
Ian,
I saw little or no measurable effect being mentioned on CNN.
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