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10-29-2007, 07:43 PM
http://www.nolanchart.com/article255.html
Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
Revenge of the Paulites
News sites profit from Ron Paul hit pieces. The Paulites can have their revenge with a coordinated boycott.by Michael McDonnough
(Libertarian)
In my analysis of the current online phenomena of Ron Paul and the Revolution that is occurring with his Presidential bid I have witnessed the growing chorus of negative articles which all seem to echo each other with their story content and analysis of the so called news they are generating.
They all are aware of the huge jump in their readership when they publish their articles on Ron Paul and it has become evident that these attacks are so clearly baseless for the most part that perhaps there is another reason for their continued existence and persistence. Perhaps what the massive online Ron Paul community is seeing is a profit making venture in disguise as hit piece news articles on Ron Paul.
What if the real reason behind these attacks is not just to attack Dr. Paul but in doing so also generate page views which raises the ranking of the offending site, while increasing traffic to their nested ads to generate increased revenue for the site? It makes perfect sense. The author of the offensive piece does not have to have any bit of strong evidence to author a story and even less to simply parrot the negative pieces done on other sites adding their own analysis to the article.
Each of these authors has it in their interest to attract as many Paul supporters and detractors to their sites and what better way to do this then to run a hit piece on Ron Paul. My advice to the Ron Paul supporters is that they use their huge numbers and instead of flocking to the offending site and hammering the comments section that they instead make a concerted boycott of any offending sites. This will have several beneficial effects for the Ron Paul campaign.
1. It will eliminate the financial incentive for these scoundrels to continue in their attacks.
2. It will dramatically reduce their site traffic which will negatively affect their page ranking.
3. It will end the criticism of Ron Paul supporters as being fanatics flooding their comments.
All of these benefits and more will be realized with a coordinated boycott of all offending news sites and blogs. There might be a slight increase in negative articles in the wake of this boycott but if the Ron Paul supporters stick to their guns and stay off of sites that are listed in the boycott then these attacks will be reduced and the attention paid to them will be measurably reduced as well. At the very least the Paulites will take some revenge on them by taking money out of their undeserving pockets.
Here is my short list of boycott deserving sites. Feel free to add you ideas to the comments section.
Red State, Hot Air, Liberty Papers, Lone Star Times, The Van Der Galin Gazette, American Thinker
Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
Revenge of the Paulites
News sites profit from Ron Paul hit pieces. The Paulites can have their revenge with a coordinated boycott.by Michael McDonnough
(Libertarian)
In my analysis of the current online phenomena of Ron Paul and the Revolution that is occurring with his Presidential bid I have witnessed the growing chorus of negative articles which all seem to echo each other with their story content and analysis of the so called news they are generating.
They all are aware of the huge jump in their readership when they publish their articles on Ron Paul and it has become evident that these attacks are so clearly baseless for the most part that perhaps there is another reason for their continued existence and persistence. Perhaps what the massive online Ron Paul community is seeing is a profit making venture in disguise as hit piece news articles on Ron Paul.
What if the real reason behind these attacks is not just to attack Dr. Paul but in doing so also generate page views which raises the ranking of the offending site, while increasing traffic to their nested ads to generate increased revenue for the site? It makes perfect sense. The author of the offensive piece does not have to have any bit of strong evidence to author a story and even less to simply parrot the negative pieces done on other sites adding their own analysis to the article.
Each of these authors has it in their interest to attract as many Paul supporters and detractors to their sites and what better way to do this then to run a hit piece on Ron Paul. My advice to the Ron Paul supporters is that they use their huge numbers and instead of flocking to the offending site and hammering the comments section that they instead make a concerted boycott of any offending sites. This will have several beneficial effects for the Ron Paul campaign.
1. It will eliminate the financial incentive for these scoundrels to continue in their attacks.
2. It will dramatically reduce their site traffic which will negatively affect their page ranking.
3. It will end the criticism of Ron Paul supporters as being fanatics flooding their comments.
All of these benefits and more will be realized with a coordinated boycott of all offending news sites and blogs. There might be a slight increase in negative articles in the wake of this boycott but if the Ron Paul supporters stick to their guns and stay off of sites that are listed in the boycott then these attacks will be reduced and the attention paid to them will be measurably reduced as well. At the very least the Paulites will take some revenge on them by taking money out of their undeserving pockets.
Here is my short list of boycott deserving sites. Feel free to add you ideas to the comments section.
Red State, Hot Air, Liberty Papers, Lone Star Times, The Van Der Galin Gazette, American Thinker