March Top 20 Web News Sites

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Top 20 Current Events & Global News Sites

Unique Audience Time Per Person Brand or Channel (000) (hh:mm:ss)

CNN 24,315 0:38:18
Yahoo! News 21,648 0:32:21
MSNBC 20,453 0:22:39
AOL News 14,460 0:45:02
Gannett Newspapers 12,224 0:14:11
Knight Ridder Digital 10,443 0:11:33
Internet Broadcasting Systems Inc. 10,117 0:13:53
Tribune Newspapers 9,456 0:13:29
NYTimes.com 8,886 0:51:59
ABCNews Digital 7,867 0:12:41
USAToday.com 7,709 0:18:32
Associated Press 6,794 0:05:29
Hearst Newspapers Digital 6,373 0:12:53
washingtonpost.com 5,717 0:25:03
Fox News 5,415 0:45:42
CBS News 4,950 0:07:01
Google News 4,904 0:12:39
BBC News 4,881 0:10:59
Advance Internet 4,608 0:13:24
WorldNow 4,434 0:08:21

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings. Data based on audience measurement of more than 60,000 U.S. panelists with home and work Net access. March 2004

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1. The blind leading the blind

Except for the BBC, most every one seem to be Corporate media companies, which would seem to me the last place I would be wanting to spend a lot of my time at.

There are some that are okay sometimes, but on a whole, most are used partly or in whole to deal out on the dissemination of Dis-information. They are at the behest wealthy ruling class that need keep people in the dark about what is really going on. They seem to do this at many levels I might ad. Just think you have found the crux of the the dirty dealing, you find a deeper level that it works at, or other avenues it travels on.

The dissemination of Dis-information is quite necessary to them. I am not fooled with them for a minute. You just need to take quick notice of what these folks shut down. These enterprises that make income that would be a good investment to the ordinary Joe but feel marginal to the elite. If the Corporate media didn't serve the purpose like it does now and in the past, it would have been shut down in the blink of eye.

The corporate and bureaucratic institutions state that the main purpose of these corporate outlets of information is to advertise on it. That is a big lie as far as I can see. The main purpose seems to me is to tell world how to think about things (and not how to sell products to people, that is just a secondary idea).

If you turn the premise the ideas they are giving out, upside down you come to the knowledge of the crap they are trying to sell is also bunk, but especially the part of what they want to bestow as knowledge about the rest of the world and what's going on in it.