Wednesday 29 April 2009

Who reads Bolt and Blair anyway? An update



I've often wondered who actually reads Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair's MSM blogs.
It seems I'm not alone in this as it is mentioned from time to time in the blogosphere.

Google Trends cannot give a definitive answer, but it most usefully supplied this short profile of who visits News.com.au websites in 2009.


It is likely that those who read Murdoch's online newspapers mostly hail from Australia and America, favour the Herald-Sun, are sports fans and look up telephone numbers on the Internet.

Not the same profile as those visiting the Prime Minister's official website , the Australian Financial Review online, Crikey's website, the Club Troppo blog or even visitors to local newspaper the Northern Star .

1 comment:

Stop Murdoch said...

It's a bit like talkback radio. A lot of commenters on News Ltd. stories are fictional. All stories have a very clear ideological bent, comments are censored for ideological purity - so the webiste works as a kind of echo chamber - or circle jerk.