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Your website seems to have an affection for the story about white women going to Africa for sex. Is there some particular reason this story remains on your pages when attrition removes all of the other stories? Of all of the events which you believe need to have visible presence, white women having sex with black men on vacation is what you chose?Give us a break, please. There MUST be something better for you to obsess about.
W.G.
We’re not obsessing over this story. You will note that the header says “MOST READ ARTICLES.” As long as the story remains one of the most-retrieved stories on our site, it remains available on that list. It’s simple math: GBU Editor
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I noticed this as well. It has been on the most read list for at least 3 weeks. It moved down to number 8th on Dec 18th but the next day it was backup to 3.
yes, but retrieved repeatedly how many times by the same computer (since Nov 26th)? SOMEone is obsessing over it, and you don’t really need to feed his/her obsession, by giving this non-story headliner status. I agree entirely with the previous poster. (How to lie with statistics is math, too.)
Arthur Spiegelman has to be one of the most left wing biased writers that tries to pass for an objective one. His Top 10 quotes article is filled with Right Wing bashing. You’re telling me that of the Top 10 quotes of the year, that 4 or 5 of them have to do with Republican bashing? Are you kidding?? The last one, with Jimmy Carter bashing the Bush Presidency…..what a joke. Jimmy Carter was one of the most inadequate presidents EVER! Mr. Spiegelman should work for moveon.org not some news company that claims to be objectice.
I must have read that story 1,000 times and I don’t get why it’s so popular either.
1000 times !…may be that’s why it is so popular….
Uh, I think that’s the very joke John was making. And anyway, I have access to the real traffic figures, and he’s only read that story 920 times…
So … if a certain editor at Reuters is supposedly not obsessed with this story, then why is it also on the MOST RECOMMENDED LIST? Simple Math?
Isn´t it `maths´ anyway?