I’ve
recently taken a bit of a break after three long months of writing in my
American Pravda series, during which I finally got around to publishing
many of the very surprising discoveries I had made over the last
fifteen-odd years. That total came to more than 90,000 words of text,
and required me to read or (mostly) reread some 40-50 books, so I was
quite exhausted by the end of the cycle.
However,
the results were quite encouraging, with my small series of articles
generating nearly half a million pageviews of readership over that short
period, while helping to drive our small webzine to record-setting
traffic. Even more remarkably, those articles provoked nearly 13,000
comments, totaling an astonishing 1.8 million words of text. Indeed,
the three most heavily-commented articles in our webzine’s history came
from that group, as did five of our seven most widely-read pieces from
the last six months.
Furthermore,
several of these articles appear to have very strong “legs” and are
still attracting enough readership to remain on the front page many
weeks after they were first released, suggesting that they may end up
accumulating remarkable aggregate traffic across the coming months and
years.
Although
all items in my American Pravda series have certainly been
controversial, many of this group were especially so, with numerous
observers noting that I had leaped four-square onto the deadliest “Third
Rail” of journalist topics and some of them predicting that I would
quickly be annihilated as a consequences of my foolhardy undertaking. I
think the following is a reasonable list of these especially “touchy”
pieces:
http://www.unz.com/announcement/has-the-adl-gone-into-hiding/
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