4 News Outlets Get 80% Of All Links From Bloggers
99% of the stories blogs link to come from traditional mainstream media sources, according to a study out today from PEW’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Bercovici notes that of that pool, 80% of those links come from four news outlets: BBC News (23%), CNN.com (21%), The New York Times (20%) and The Washington Post (16%).
Which “means that the news organizations at the very top of the food chain are essentially in a different business than everyone else,” he writes.
Wow, 4 News Outlets Get 80% Of All Links From Bloggers.
