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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
They are doing okay, but I do think it is important to keep it in perspective: they are about as popular and highly-trafficked as the Huffington Post, which is not exactly "mainstream."
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What is mainstream?
CNN (26)
New York Times (31)
Washington Post (44)
MSN (45)
Buzzfeed (49)
Fox News (60)
Huffington Post (62)
Breitbart (66)
NPR (152)
CBS News (235)
NBC News (242)
ABC News (295)
MSNBC (539)
PBS (540)
Others of note
Youtube (2)
Facebook (3)
Yahoo (6)
Wikipedia (7)
Twitter (8)
LinkedIn (11)
Pornhub (18)
ESPN (28)
Apple (34)
Walmart (35)
Xvideos (37)
Microsoft (40)
With the number of people who have cut the cable and are now more reliant on online content I think "mainstream" needs to be re-examined. Lamestream media is a great narrative for those on the right to beat people over the head with, but mass media has changed dramatically over the past decade, and the mainstream has followed the marketplace. More people go to these data aggregators to get their news than they do from the institutions who do the actual journalism.