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	As Eric said in his last post on this topic, Jeff Tindall's 
assertion about our readership has no basis in anything he said.  In 
fact, Jeff made it up out of whole cloth.  

	We first publisshed the poll, and as is the custom in rpint, we
distinguish our own paper's name in any list of others.  WIRED's list
stopped at The American Reporter at no. 10; in response to Jeff Perlman's
comment, they did not make the WIRED Top 10, because at the time the poll
was taken last fall, the Prodigy disaster overtook the LA Times site; they
have now regrouped are doing a little better. 

	Eric's gobbledygook aside, there were 25,000 responses to the poll
published in WIRED, and it was done by the University of Texas Mass
Communications Dept.; Eric's had "well over 2,500" responses and was done
by him.  I think a university's methods are probably pretty sound.  That
is not to say Eric doesn't know what he is talking about; only that I have
no idea what he was talking about. Polling methodology is not an area of 
interest for me.  Shocking, huh?


Best,

Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
joeshea@netcom.com
http://www.newshare.com/Reporter/today.html


On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Jeff Tindall wrote:

> >>We're really hearing a promotional pitch...<<
> >>Here is the Top 10 and beyond poll that was published in WIRED magazine in March...<
>    9. Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul)
>    10. THE AMERICAN REPORTER
>    11. Clarinet (newsgroup based)...
> >>Best,
> Joe Shea
> Editor-in-Chief
> The American Reporter<<
> 
> Hmmm, I wonder if Wired Magazine used them ALL CAPS on the #10 group, or
> if a little "editorial licence" was practiced in reposting this. In
> fact, Eric's top ten list says the AR got "less than 0.3% of the total
> vote."
> 
> Speaking of a "promotional pitch"... I wonder who's pitching and who's
> catching?  :-)
> 
> Jeff
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