Comments on: Blogs: Balancing the Conservative Media

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:57:45 +0000

I have no reason to doubt Kos' site stats are in that ballpark. He's the highest ranked site on the BlogAds order page on a pretty consistent basis. His site is one of the four or five most popular blogs, quite possibly the most popular. It's one of the few of the truly huge blogs that still allows comments--albeit registered users only--so there's likely a lot of repeats each day, with people going back and interacting.

By: mshyde

mshyde — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:54:48 +0000

Since the majority of the time Kos' publications are
false and full of twisted half truths, why should anyone believe the stated number of hits he gets on his site? Who is he paying to keep going to his site and hitting the refresh button over and over?
How many are unique?

By: Bithead

Bithead — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:10:28 +0000

Not really, Moon.
Consider the number of votes Howard Dean got.
There's a lot of idiocy out there. I suppose it's thereby possible that Kos could attract that kind of HPD.

By: MoonCrowe

MoonCrowe — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:05:31 +0000

I can make my hit counter show more hits than that!!!!! That a half million individuals hit that site daily is laughable.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:44:12 +0000

A truly amazing number of lies and distortions for one, short paragraph.

Not for Kos, it's not....

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:29:21 +0000

DailyKos.com receives 350-400,000 visits every day I don't know how accurate the web site "The Truth Laid Bear" is but as of this morning they show the DailyKos at 297,802 visits per day.

By: INDC Journal

INDC Journal — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:39:41 +0000

Quick Links * James Joyner roots around in a trash can and says, "Look what I found!" * Real Clear Politics has a supraphysiological dosage of Bush-Cheney smack-down for political poll junkies. * Dean explores the phenomenon known as "Instapundit-envy." My per...

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 02:54:59 +0000

Yep--the numerical comparisons struck me as rather apples/oranges as well.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 02:50:58 +0000

That Kos must be smoking the good stuff.

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 02:43:10 +0000

My blog DailyKos.com receives 350-400,000 visits every day - double that of FoxNews.com and comparable to the Guardian's print run. The fact that the Guardian let this bit of b.s. pass the editing desk is a poor reflection on their editing staff. To compare 400,000 "visits" with the press run of a newspaper is laughable. How many of Kos' visits are return visits? Is Kos saying there are a comparable number of Guardian readers who buy more than one issue of the paper? Not to mention the ~20 million in Rush's audience on a daily basis, or the how many million who tune in to FOX on the tele rather than on the web site. If this is the type of "truth to power" that the left is putting out, I don't think the right has much to fear.