Uh oh, get ready to hear and read more assertions about that mean, old liberal mainstream media now that one of the Internet’s mega-hit liberal sites (which runs a variety of opinion in its blog posts) is now ranked the nation’s number two “newspaper.”
The Huffington Post has registered 26 million unique monthly visitors in the United States, a record for the site, according the comScore November data for the “Newspaper Sites.”
The comScore numbers find the Huffington Post holding in the the number two “newspaper” position, after the New York Times. It has passed the Tribune newspaper group, which is now ranked third.
In the period of May through November, the Wall Street Journal registered the biggest jump in traffic, up 23 percent, although slightly down in November.
And, indeed, the HP has shown that it aspires to be a special kind of Internet site as it has “raided” some of the best print talent. The big news was its hiring Newsweek’s Howard Fineman. And now comes the news that it has hired The New York Times’ Sunday Business editor Timothy L. O’Brien.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.