I guess Mickey won’t be writing for the New York Times any time soon either. His piece today, following up on my short take on the New York Times’ left-liberal parody version of the Census story yesterday, is extremely smart, as usual. Check it out.
TAP’S “TRAFFIC”: There’s a site on the web that does rough and ready traffic rankings for sites. It’s not representative of all Internet users, doesn’t count anyone on a Mac and has lots of other biases (like weighting pageviews which discriminates against personal home-pages). So I’m skeptical of its accuracy. Nevertheless, it ranks the American Prospect at 23,581, a little lower than The New Republic at 22,840. Now, TNR claims 275,000 monthly unique visitors; while TAP claims 450,000. Fishy, no? I believe TNR. Readers, however, have come to TAP’s defense. One writes:
I, for one, find the Prospect’s claims quite plausible. Not the part about 14,000 unique visitors a day, the part about the vast majority of people who go there not wanting to go back for at least a month.
TAP has yet to respond to these questions in detail. I wonder why. Yesterday they were complaining that they couldn’t think of anything to blog about. Well, guys, here’s a suggestion.
The Dish 