Thu
Aug 14 2008
03:18 pm
I haven't done any heavy number-crunching, but it appears to me that the Knoxville News-Sentinel's website gets more comments than The Tennessean's website.
Does anyone have an explanation for this, given that the latter has a larger circulation and market?
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Interesting
Interesting observation/question. Don't know. And the Tennesseean has had comments longer than the KNS, I think (but I could be wrong).
Maybe it's because of all the blogs and other online venues in the Knoxville area, and people are more used to the idea? Or the KNS has done a better job promoting reader interaction?
Or maybe it's political, with more outspoken and opinionated Republicans in East TN v. all those namby pamby Democrats over in Nashville?
(Or maybe all the yahoos who left KnoxViews in one of our Stalinist Purges found a new home? Heh.)
Hundreds of comments on the N-S site every day...
...from the same 8 or 10 posters, that's all.