Reporting Reflects Anxiety (NYT login: FRITOPIE, password: FRITOPIE)
What do Sean-Paul Kelly and The Beatles have in common? They're both bigger than Jesus....
Even if Sean-Paul Kelley, the mastermind and lightning-fast typist behind the Weblog at agonist.org, had changed his mind about the war in recent days, his rapidly growing audience would not know it. In a shift that appears to reflect a growing distrust of mass media, the most popular Web journals to emerge in recent days are simply reporting the news.
"My readership has grown 350 percent over the last five days, and I really think it's a function of the fact that I am providing the news without the media hype of CNN and Fox," said Mr. Kelly, 32, of San Antonio, who has devoted the past week to transcribing news from dozens of sources and posting it nonstop on his Web site. "The most important thing is that people know what is going on."
My heartiest congratulations go out to Sean-Paul. He now gets as many hits in one hour as I do in SEVENTEEN DAYS. Yesterday, he had two-and-a-half times more visitors (IN ONE DAY) than TPRS has had in the 18 months I've been doing this. Jealous? Who, me?? Nah.... OK, well, maybe just a wee bit....
I wonder if he'll remember me, now that he's become bigger than Glenn Reynolds? (Of course, I HAVE gotten a lot of visitors who have come over from Sean-Paul's site....) God, I feel SO insignificant.... ;0)
