Traffic Data: Cable News, Led By CNN, Crushing Newspapers On The Web

by Mark Joyella | 2:09 pm, May 10th, 2011

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Fox News may rule on cable, but on the web, CNN’s the leader–and its website is crushing the online efforts of the titans of print. According to ComScore, for the first three months of 2011, CNN averaged nearly 8.5 million unique U.S. visitors each day. The best-performing newspaper, The New York Times, was ranked third on the ComScore list with an average 5.6 million.

MSNBC was in second place behind CNN with 7.4 million unique U.S. visitors, and Fox News averaged 2.3 million.

Even trailing CNN and MSNBC, Fox’s online performance beat some of print’s biggest names, including sites for the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News and USA Today.

“This is a trend that’s been developing for the last three to four years now,” digital news analyst Ken Doctor of Outsell Inc. told NPR’s David Folkenflik. “This underscores the fact that when you run a news company, you’ve got to run a multi-media company.”

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http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Let me see now, when you go online you don’t have to listen to Maddow, O’Donnell, Morgan or Matthews. Hmmmm. Now you know why the people on those outlets go online instead of the video version.
FOX people WANT to watch the people on the channel. Fox wins again.
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

Old people watch TV (Fox News). Younger people use the internet. Duh.
MrTPar_taY

Publius219 said:
Old people watch TV (Fox News). Younger people use the internet. Duh.

Young people voted for Obama and like Lady Gaga. Old people will vote him out and laugh at you.

LMFAO! heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh
WCinWI

Actually, I thought it was Yahoo, Google and Drudge that led the news reporting traffic visits.
mailpro56

I think they are the biggest portals to news sites. I think Drudge had 31 million in the last 24 hours. Don’t know if they were unique ones. WAY more than CNN. But let’s let Mark have his fun. I’m sure we’ll see him report on this like Chris Matthews talks about Sarah Palin. Mark and Chris are ‘One Trick Pony’s’.
notsofast

Publius219 said:
Younger people use the internet. Duh.

Yes, they have plenty of basement time like you, son.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Publius219 said:
Old people watch TV (Fox News). Younger people use the internet. Duh.

LOL they may USE the internet but all studies show they can’t read. Just look in the mirror.
Thelonious Funk

Of course. Newspapers have all of those journalism reports in the way. Who wants that? It’s too hard to find links to my youtube videos.
Raygun

The internet skews younger, and therefore more liberal. College and University campuses have wifi, but retirement homes don’t . I don’t really know though, can one of the conservatives on here report back between games of bingo? Unless your osteoporosis is acting up and keeping you from typing.
jrcmi

I wonder how many Fox viewers actually OWN a computer.

gordimblowhardsham said:
Fox wins again.

By that “logic,” you probably consider Pearl Harbor a big win for the munitions industry.

Your marbles are so thoroughly scrambled you could WORK for Fakes “News.”

MrTPartyPooper said:
Young people voted for Obama and like Lady Gaga. Old people will vote him out and laugh at you.

LMFAO! heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh

You tell him, gramps!

nitsowit said:
Yes, they have plenty of basement time like you, son.

Nice of you to stop sniffing the dirty underwear down there long enough to comment . . . great-granddad. Sheesh.
Jackyboy

Publius219 said:
Old people watch TV (Fox News). Younger people use the internet. Duh.

That is so primitive and naive. If you are old you watch TV and only TV? (and you say it like old people are expendable and a waste of air) Really? You know I am always amazed at the stupidity on this board. I really shouldn’t be shocked but… wow…
Nachi

Murcuhns are simply too stupid, ill-informed, ill-bred, ill-educated, ill-mannered, ill-dignified, ill-interested – to tackle a newspaper. if it doesn’t make noise, jump up & down, it isn’t worthwhile. Yup.
http://Mediaite.com uggugg

Why are oil companies charging so much for their oil? Main reason is, because they can. Why can they? Because all the oil companies formed a CARTEL, a Cartel is a group of companies joined together and cooperates to STOP COMPETETION, a sort of clever method of PRICE FIXING. There is abundance of Crude Oil and they continue to raise the price until a large number of buyers stop buying, they then lower the price again until they start buying again. “They call this what the market will bear”. The people using these barrels of oil are (captive customers) which makes the business men suppliers look like greedy hard core profiteers. This does maximize their profits but they are killing the bees that make the Honey. Do they also think; “there are plenty more bees where they came from”?
The Gasoline prices are pretty much the same. They raise the price of a gallon of gasoline until a large number of people quit buying, then they lower the price until everyone starts buying again. This is a sensible way of arriving at a price for products not related to the necessities of life. Price gouging on products produced for the necessities of life and economic stability and progress should be classed as a heinous act and unethical in all business. On the necessities of Life, people will buy till they go broke or die. That is no civilized way of setting prices.
The only thing greedy business men understand is legislation. Legislation is like a contract. Every business man will tell you, when doing business never work without a contract. New Legislation should be implemented and adjusted frequently to keep business fair and running smoother.