Friday, May 6, 2011

Alternative Media Rankings Surge After bin Laden Assassination Spectacle

Activist Post

A story like the assassination of "public enemy #1" is naturally going to drive people toward all news sources.  However, we in the alternative news media have been particularly busy since the announcement late Sunday night, as indicated by Alexa website rankings.

For those of us covering the government and mainstream media lies, distortions, and pure propaganda, it has been nearly overwhelming to attend to every facet of this professional wrestling-style spectacle.

As a result, traffic to alternative news sites has surged dramatically.  This is very encouraging, as it indicates that people are not immediately rushing only to the comfort and security of the official story, which is largely framed by appeals to emotion -- rather, people appear to be hungry for facts.  Given that alternative media generally does not have even a fraction of the budget of corporate media, the ranking increases are doubly satisfying.  We are honored to be included with the true news sources below as a reliable indicator of the search for truth and justice amid the miasma of the current official coverage of the bin Laden Assassination Show being peddled for obviously corporate and political reasons.

Alternative News 7-day change according to Alexa; listed in order of overall ranking:

Drudge Report --  Rank: 342  Change: 48

Infowars -- Rank: 1,095 Change: 737

Prison Planet --  Rank: 2,989  Change: 2,056

Rense -- Rank: 4,731 Change: 268

David Icke -- Rank: 4,904 Change: 1,887

Lew Rockwell -- Rank: 5,341  Change: 1,435

Global Research -- Rank: 9,119  Change: 5,022

What Really Happened --  Rank: 10,554  Change: 4,978   Special hat tip to Mike Rivero who suffered a hack that effectively shut down his site just as the announcement came in.  He bounced back stronger than ever with the highest increase that we could find, which included a spike yesterday to overall 4,582 -- increase of over 11,000.

Activist Post -- Rank: 17,185  Change: 2,468

The Intel Hub -- Rank: 32,138 Change: 7,928

Reality Zone -- Rank: 84,465  Change: + 10,522

* We realize that there are many great sites, blogs, news aggregators and YouTubers that we omitted, due principally to the lack of available 7-day data.  We also chose to focus on those sites with original commentary that covered the bin Laden debacle in depth.  Nearly all hardworking alternative media has increased across the board.

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