Where you clicked: MnIndy’s most popular stories of 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009 at 10:52 am
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Over the last 12 months the Minnesota Independent has published more than 2,200 stories on an array of topics — from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s historic vote on gay clergy to political seed art, the breach of Norm Coleman’s online donor database to the former senator’s battle to keep the seat eventually won by Al Franken. But the most readers flocked here for other stories: Seven of the ten most-clicked stories of 2009 were about Rep. Michele Bachmann.
10. Fox uses debunked ‘terrorism expert’ to slam Rep. Ellison’s trip to Mecca, Jan. 8, 19,651 pageviews
9. Bachmann fears ‘politically correct re-education camps for young people,’ April 6, 22,000 pageviews
8. The Daily Show on Bachmann ‘speaking crazy to power,’ April 8, 22,873 pageviews
7. Bachmann falsely claims ‘flying imams’ were in Minneapolis for Ellison party, April 15, 23,044 pageviews
6. Tinklenberg v. Bachmann redux? DFLers already eyeing 2010, April 17, 24,549 pageviews
5. Bachmann, Kline oppose public option because it’s ‘cheaper,’ July 21, 35,843
4. Bachmann joins Paulsen on GOP’s most-vulnerable-incumbents list, July. 23, 39,866 pageviews
3. Bachmann: Prayer and fasting will help defeat health care reform, Aug. 24, 49,395 pageviews
2. Medical marijuana legislation passes Minnesota Senate, April 29, 51,988 pageviews
1. Franken assails Court, Klobuchar slams sexism at Sotomayor vote, July 28, 103,977 pageviews
10 Comments
Comment posted December 28, 2009 @ 11:25 am
so…slamming Bachmann, smoking pot, and assailing conservatives…is that all you got?
Bring it.
Comment posted December 28, 2009 @ 11:56 am
Show me one site where the most popular stories are the site’s best, “ZNOFOB.” (What’s with the name? Cowardly much?) Anyone with web experience at all knows it’s the titillating, bizarre or outrageous stories that bring the traffic.
Comment posted December 28, 2009 @ 2:47 pm
Thank you for your coverage of the medical marijuana topic.
Marijuana reform repeatedly landed at or near the top of Obama’s whitehouse.gov list of agendas Americans wished to see changed. It has proven, time and again, to be a topic that people are interested in for the myriad of societal effects it involves. MNIndy’s coverage was the most accurate of all the local media outlets in my opinion. Well done!
Comment posted December 29, 2009 @ 10:22 am
It’s been a great year for slamming Bachmann, Conservatives, Religious fanatics and people that think conservative is a more PC name for Facism.
Keep bringing the truth to Minnesota.
Comment posted December 29, 2009 @ 10:40 am
How many of those Bachmann hits were from out of state, assuming you have or want to release that information. It occurs to me that now that she’s a national figure, some people would look to Minnesota media for information, even if Minnesotans get overdosed.
Comment posted December 29, 2009 @ 10:46 am
I could go into Google Analytics to look at each individual story to see where traffic came from. But since that’s a lot of work, I’ll just say: lots of these stories blew up thanks to pickups by national media like Huffington Post, Google News or TPM or, in the case of medical marijuana, through social-bookmarking sites like Stumbleupon. Suffice it to say, big traffic spikes are largely due to national attention for local events.
Comment posted December 30, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
Bachman has managed to draw a lot of attention to herself by making outrageous public statements. She then takes a victim stance and complains that she has been “Palinized” I wish she would take that analogy one step further – resign.
Comment posted January 3, 2010 @ 12:23 pm
Schmelzer’s link says a lot more about how far the “Society of Professional Journalists” has fallen than anything related to quality.
Seriously, this website has been thoroughly debunked as nothing more than an astroturf propaganda arm of George Soros, Inc. It’s funny to read, but as a source of quality information…um, not so much.
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