Fastest growing newspaper in America? Want to make a guess?

[lovuian]

http://www.storyleak.com/data-americans-rejecting-mainstream-media-british-newspaper/

its not Fox
Its not CNN
its not MSNBC
its not American


its the Guardian!

The Guardian grew by 1111.75% in August and an astounding 671,389.51% over the past year, signifying the desire for Americans to find real information about what’s going on.


Like it or not American journalism has lost credibility

[Warpy]

1. I love The Guardian

Infotainment news has discredited itself along with papers that are 90% advertisement vehicles and only 10% news and most of that news is now delivered with a conservative, corporate slant.

I wonder how many of the new readers in the Americas realize they're reading a paper which is fairly hard leftist. It's interesting that their readership is going up that fast.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

30. Truth and objectivity are radically leftist by nature since the right has chosen

lies and nonsense as their default paradigm.

[Lodestar]

2. That's more reliable than ANY poll about the mood and values of Americans.

If you want to take the temperature of the country this kind of information is how to piece it together.
Don't rely on the MSM or polls for they are surely run by those wishing to shape 'reality' in their favor.

[calimary]

40. Welcome to DU, Lodestar!

Glad you're here! I remember how The Guardian was the only major publication anywhere that consistently told the truth about bush/cheney - especially regarding their collective war hard-on. Agence France-Presse was another one. Most of the overseas news outlets did, but The Guardian led the way. And if any of them moved the meter at all, it was The Guardian that did so, and nobody gave a damn about der Spiegel or the rest of 'em. That was "Old Europe" as rummy dismissively sneered. That and the McClatchy papers here in the U.S. - which were decidedly low-profile and nobody paid much attention to them. Unlike what the devious network executive (played by Robert Duvall) in the movie "Network" called "the holy goddamn New York Times."

[Lodestar]

50. Thanks for the welcome! n/t

[lovuian]

3. I was amazed at the growth of the newspaper

I just saw Time Magazine ran Putin on the front cover for its world series but for America they ran college football players should get a salary


they know the world population is not interested in American college football but with Putin .....why two different covers?

[former9thward]

4. Internet hits do not equate to the "fastest growing newspaper."

[lovuian]

5. you bring up an interesting point

a quote from the article

The main word that people going to The Guardian were searching for was “Syria,” according to Compete’s blog. That would indicate Americans appreciate The Guardian’s skepticism of President Obama’s plans to attack Syria and its reputation for honest reporting. It also indicates that average Americans no longer trust their own media and are increasingly turning to a foreign news source.

Read more: http://www.storyleak.com/data-americans-rejecting-mainstream-media-british-newspaper/#ixzz2kqNK63ow

[former9thward]

13. People are turning to foreign media for a variety of reasons.

And one is your point -- people don't trust the media. But more important, they are turning because they can. Before newspapers went online the only place you could read foreign press was in some libraries and a few newsstands.

[Lodestar]

6. Well how would you measure popularity these days?

Subscription?
It is permitted to operate at a loss. And simply because people don't PAY to read it doesn't mean it lacks influence or
isn't growing in popularity.

[former9thward]

12. Subscriptions and ad revenue.

Which is how it is always been measured. A newspaper that doesn't get paid for its content will not be around very long.

[sabrina 1]

31. As one of those people who stopped trusting the US Media long ago, after the lies

about Iraq, the Sunday shows where the Liars, Cheney, Condi et al were allowed to get away with their lies and treated as if they were not war criminals and liars, I rarely ever read a US mainstream newspaper or watch the MSM, too frustrating to try to find actual unbiased news there.

I go to many International news sites, watch any Independent media I can find on TV, and there are few now, and doubt I will ever trust the US Corporate Media again until we return to some basic standards that, for one thing.

The Guardian eg, doesn't ask for money, but if they did, I would most likely pay them. I subscribed to Al Jazeera starting during the Bush years but stopped when they appeared to have been compromised during the Libya invasion.

People want the facts and they will go look for them if they cannot find them here. The US Media has lost credibility around the world, when at one time CNN eg, was a respected news organization, until Ted Turner sold it and it turned into Fox Lite.

Ask Hillary Clinton who told Congress that the US 'cannot get its message out anymore due to the proliferation of other News Media. My first thought was 'Message'?? The news is not supposed to be anyone's 'message'. But since our media was bought up by Corporations that is what it has been used for, period. To deliver a 'message' rather than report news. It has failed as she pointed out, thinking if they spent more money it would make a difference. Sad that she didn't understand, money can 'win' in the sense they can buy up everything, but they can't sell propaganda to people who are looking for facts.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. That's because 'theguardian.com' went live on July 30th

so it had 2 days in July, and then a full month in August. This is actually explained at the compete.com site that 'StoryLeak' links to, but StoryLeak couldn't understand that. Their site used to be 'guardian.co.uk'.

TheGuardian.com saw explosive growth in August as the popular online newspaper moved from Guardian.co.uk on July 30 to TheGuardian.com. Comparing TheGuardian.com in August to Guardian.co.uk over the recent months also shows that the news outlet had their best month for unique visitors (UVs) in two years.

https://blog.compete.com/2013/09/09/august-2013-competitive-data-live-compete/

So they had 12 times the traffic of those 2 July days in August - about what you'd expect. and 672 times the traffic of the previous year - but you should divide that by about 183, because it had only been going for 2/365 of a year. That could still be good growth, but you need to get the figures back into the realms of reality.

[RainDog]

8. I contacted the Guardian back during the early Bush years

To request they publish an edition of their paper in the U.S. I looked into ordering it from the UK to sell here, but the terms made it too expensive for a small book dealer to be able to do.

Back then, tho, I used to read the Guardian every day and would read about events that others found out about via watered-down versions six months later.

The Jessica Lynch story was especially memorable.

Polls consistently note that the U.S. is more liberal than its politicians.

It's also, therefore, more liberal than its media, it seems.

[jmowreader]

9. Fox, CNN and MSNBC are not newspapers

[99Forever]

11. You are correct.

They aren't credible news organizations in any form of media, print, radio, broadcast, internet, satellite, or cable.

[jmowreader]

32. How right you are

The important thing: they're not newspapers and the article was on the fastest-growing NEWSPAPER. (Or in this case, newspaper website; as far as I know the Guardian doesn't sell printed papers in the US.)

[cui bono]

10. Because Americans are increasingly treasonous and love to read stories

leaked by traitors and criminals and written by sleazy journalists, all crying out for attention.












(Did I really need it? Sadly, perhaps I did.)

[longship]

14. Everybody knows that it's The Weekly World News!

Here are some examples of their exquisite reportage.







And, of course, Steven Hawking is always big news. Especially when it's really big news.
?w=400&h=533

[SoapBox]

15. ROFL

[red dog 1]

20. Hilarious!

I needed a good laugh today, thanks.

[Logical]

25. You forgot batboy!!! nt

[longship]

26. Who needs batboy when you've got a fat cat owning 23 old ladies!

For Christ sake. Get some perspective here.

[diane in sf]

29. lol! thanks...

[L0oniX]

33. Someone please bring back Weekly World News.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

39. A bit of trivia about "Weekly World News"...

The digital artist who did "Batboy" and the "Devil in smoke and cloud" images also did voice work for the Pokemon cartoons and was a regular caller of the Mike Malloy Show and posted on the forum.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. The Grauniad is much improved over yesteryear. nt

(on edit fixed spelling of "improved&quot

[dipsydoodle]

37. I think that will be lost on most here.

Their proof reading was simply awful.

[RebelOne]

41. I am a retired copy editor,

and I would be happy to offer my service for a price, of course.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

47. But not lost on you! High Five. nt

[dipsydoodle]

48. The origin of the joke names for our UK newspapers is Private Eye from the 70's.

Grauniad for the Guardian, Torygraph for the Telegraph etc. etc.

[KoKo]

17. Sounds Good! K&R!

[mountain grammy]

18. good news.

[go west young man]

19. Best news source going.

Although I would prefer if all their American stuff didn't come with from the Associated Press.

[red dog 1]

21. The Guardian is my favorite newspaper.

[mimi85]

43. You forgot your sarcasm thingy - I hope nt

[CFLDem]

22. Huh... I guessed The Onion.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

23. even the Daily Mail website sometimes has accurate political reporting.

although it is a very cheesy tab.

[RebelOne]

42. I like The Daily Mail. It has some bizarre stories. n/t

[longship]

24. More WWN fun.

Love the smoking trees. Wonder if it's dope.

[Wilms]

27. ^

[Corruption Inc]

28. The M$M lost all cred when they started asking how people felt about torture

as if torturing human beings is something that's debatable. Not surprisingly, millions of propagandized, keyboard warrior "Amurkans" said they loved the idea of torturing someone.

It'd be interesting to ask the same people if they'd torture their own children, I bet a large number of them would answer "yes".

[rhett o rick]

35. Of course they'd torture their own children if the children knew the location of

the nuclear device that was about to blow up NYC.

I think that's the justification used to rationalize torture.

Of course Bushy had random Iraqi cab drivers tortured just in case.

[valerief]

34. K&R

[Romulox]

36. I don't think the Guardian is published or distributed in the US. More's the pity. nt

[TBF]

46. That's ok - most of us are internet literate & can find it

and more importantly so are our kids.

[Romulox]

49. Hopefully our children know the difference between a newspaper, a website, and a cable tv network.

All different things.

[MineralMan]

38. Comparing apples to oranges again.

You start by talking about a newspaper and then try to compare it to cable TV networks. Makes no sense.

[malaise]

44. The Guardian has long been my primary source for news

Check out its ownership structure and you'll know why it's the best paper on the panet.

[bvar22]

45. OH NO!!!! Heads will explode!!!

Not [font size=3]The Guardian????[/font]

The paper that publishes the much hated Glenn Greenwald???