The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:20:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Reuters Trolls for Traffic With Soros' Occupy Wall Street Non-Connection http://www.theawl.com/2011/10/reuters-trolls-for-traffic-with-soros-occupy-wall-street-non-connection http://www.theawl.com/2011/10/reuters-trolls-for-traffic-with-soros-occupy-wall-street-non-connection#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:20:21 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2011/10/reuters-trolls-for-traffic-with-soros-occupy-wall-street-non-connection

Is #soros cash behind #ows protests? We took a look and here's what we found http://t.co/v5rto1FY @michellenichols @reuters #occupywallstThu Oct 13 14:29:47 via TweetDeckMark Egan
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This amazing piece of trolling by Mark Egan and Michelle Nichols at Reuters has set the world on fire with the news that George Soros is the sole financial backer of Occupy Wall Street! Oh except he isn't. (He granted cash to an organization that then made small grants to Adbusters, a publication of which Soros had never heard, and which was one of the organizing groups behind Occupy Wall Street.) But good job, shady mega-trolls, from your headline ("Who's behind the Wall St. protests?") to the whole rest of it ("there has been much speculation...."). Mark Egan really went the extra mile on Twitter: "Here's what we found"? What you found is a handily shareable non-connection between the right's favorite lefty bogeyman and an independent protest movement. Kudos go to Reuters editor Claudia Parsons for really juicing it up. Gross job, everyone!

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Is #soros cash behind #ows protests? We took a look and here's what we found http://t.co/v5rto1FY @michellenichols @reuters #occupywallstThu Oct 13 14:29:47 via TweetDeckMark Egan
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This amazing piece of trolling by Mark Egan and Michelle Nichols at Reuters has set the world on fire with the news that George Soros is the sole financial backer of Occupy Wall Street! Oh except he isn't. (He granted cash to an organization that then made small grants to Adbusters, a publication of which Soros had never heard, and which was one of the organizing groups behind Occupy Wall Street.) But good job, shady mega-trolls, from your headline ("Who's behind the Wall St. protests?") to the whole rest of it ("there has been much speculation...."). Mark Egan really went the extra mile on Twitter: "Here's what we found"? What you found is a handily shareable non-connection between the right's favorite lefty bogeyman and an independent protest movement. Kudos go to Reuters editor Claudia Parsons for really juicing it up. Gross job, everyone!

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2011/10/reuters-trolls-for-traffic-with-soros-occupy-wall-street-non-connection/feed 38 How Reuters Pays For Traffic http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/how-reuters-pays-for-traffic http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/how-reuters-pays-for-traffic#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:15:45 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/how-reuters-pays-for-traffic MMMM, MATTHere is an in-depth look at the relationship between Reuters and Matt Drudge and Andrew Breitbart. Drudge and Breitbart's business decisions couldn't be more brilliant, so I suspect their relationship with the news wire service is equally genius. After a legal fracas, Reuters and Breitbart made an arrangement that including using a click-tracking code in Reuters URLs-like that used for Amazon "partner" links, basically-which indicates a commercial understanding.
The Drudge Report linked to Reuters.com just 29 times from January 1, 2005 to October 14, 2005. Then, Breitbart signed his new deal to drive traffic to Reuters.com for money. From October 15, 2005 to December 31, 2005, the Drudge Report linked to Reuters.com 229 times. In all fairness, it may be that this abrupt 2900% increase in Reuters.com links didn't have all that much impact on the Drudge Report's content.

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]]> MMMM, MATTHere is an in-depth look at the relationship between Reuters and Matt Drudge and Andrew Breitbart. Drudge and Breitbart's business decisions couldn't be more brilliant, so I suspect their relationship with the news wire service is equally genius. After a legal fracas, Reuters and Breitbart made an arrangement that including using a click-tracking code in Reuters URLs-like that used for Amazon "partner" links, basically-which indicates a commercial understanding.
The Drudge Report linked to Reuters.com just 29 times from January 1, 2005 to October 14, 2005. Then, Breitbart signed his new deal to drive traffic to Reuters.com for money. From October 15, 2005 to December 31, 2005, the Drudge Report linked to Reuters.com 229 times. In all fairness, it may be that this abrupt 2900% increase in Reuters.com links didn't have all that much impact on the Drudge Report's content.

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