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Joe, the plain simple truth is that the data are worthless. Get over it. 

--Jeff

At 02:52 PM 8/28/96 -0700, Joe Shea wrote:
>
>	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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