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Unintended Consequences?
Contributors and regular readers here at IBA might find
this post of
Gates of Vienna interesting. Excerpt:
As most readers know by now, Gates of Vienna has experienced a massive surge of traffic in the last few days, thanks to the manifesto written by Anders Behring Breivik, the accused murderer of seventy-six people in Oslo and on the island of Utøya.
The increased traffic forced us to close our blog to comments, since they became too numerous and contentious to monitor....
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...Then late last night The New York Times surprised us by deigning to take notice of our existence.
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Our increased readership, gives us the good fortune to be able to publicize the way we do business here, which is different from the customary practices of the mainstream media....
Exposure in the mainstream media can cut in more than one direction.
I had thought about that possibility early on, then lost that train of thought as things "heated up."
I have to wonder if the NYT's
character assassination of Robert Spencer might have an effect that the mainstream media hadn't considered.
Poetic justice?
Will be interesting to watch to see if the mainstream media outfox themselves.
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