Will Joe Sixpack go online?

[Stewart Fist]

me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au wrote:
> 
> Linkers
> 
> Regarding our recent discussions re online newspapers -
> 
> >LEWINSKY FUELS TRAFFIC
> >The Lewinsky affair doubled traffic to US  online news sites.
> >MSNBC and CNN both  had record-breaking numbers.
> >ABCnews.com  had 1.6 million visits, and USA Today 1.5 million.

There were 3 million hits on the major two sites -- spread over what time?  
Was that a day, a week or a month?

My guess is that it was a week. 

 And who reported it?

CNN and MSNBC -- both paragons of virtue when it comes to reporting ratings.

I think not.

So, if we give these figures the normal claimed-ratings discount of 50%, it
probably means that in the USA, over one week, 250,000 pre-pubescent teenagers
went on line a few time to see if  'Inappropriate Behaviour' meant Oral Sex or
just a bit of groping in the Oval Office.   

How does that compare with prime-time network television viewing?

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