How much is the media ignoring Elizabeth Warren’s problems?
On what should be a common news topic for the Elizabeth Warren/Scott Brown Massachusetts Senate race, the low-traffic Walkerville Weekly Reader comes up second.
Lately I’ve been noticing that my very low-traffic1 satire web site, the Walkerville Weekly Reader, has been getting a lot of hits for searches on common Elizabeth Warren topics. Usually I only get hits for odd search juxtapositions and for image searches. In yesterday’s logs, for example, I got hits for “al gore alcohol” because as far as I know no one is really accusing Gore of having an alcohol problem.2 I also got hits for “I love Ann photo”, I suspect because I label my photos better than most sites.
But I also got hits for the followings searches:
- elizabeth warren lawyer representing insurance company
- elizabeth warren and travelers insurance
- did eluzabeth warren pass the bar exam?3
- elizabeth warren and passing law exam
None of those are odd juxtapositions or image searches. They’re legitimate news searches, people trying to find information about real issues with Elizabeth Warren’s status as a lawyer in Massachusetts and her actions representing Travelers Insurance and other insurance companies.
Those are important issues in the Massachusetts senate election. I should be somewhere around page seventy-seven for those searches, but for all except the second, I’m on page one.4 For the first search, I’m the eighth link in the list. For the third, I’m the seventh link, and for the fourth, I’m number two, beat out only by a New York Times keyword page that mentions the Dodd-Frank law passing.
If it were Scott Brown pretending to be Cherokee, potentially pretending to be a lawyer, and fighting to keep insurance companies from having to pay out on claims, there’s no way my little site would get such high rankings.
In response to Election 2012: The Long Hot Summer: For election blogging outside of California.
Yesterday’s log recorded 860 page hits, and that includes robots. Three hundred and sixty-six of those were from the same IP address, of a server hosted in the United Kingdom that is also in a lot of blacklists.
↑Other than ethanol.
↑Note that Google auto-fixes the spelling of “Eluzabeth” to “Elizabeth”, nor do I have that misspelling on my page, so it isn’t the uncommon word that brings me to the top of the search results for that search.
↑For the second search, “elizabeth warren and travelers insurance”, I’m on page three.
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- Elizabeth Warren fights to deregulate insurance lawyers
- “I’m not like other Democrats who push regulations on other people then ignore the law themselves,” said Warren. “I believe in full deregulation of insurance company lawyers.”
- Elizabeth Warren’s law license problem: William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection
- “Warren attempted to deny her role, and referred to a Boston Globe article, but the Globe article supports Brown’s account. The Globe article indicated the representation was for a period of three years and Warren was paid $212,000. The case resulted in a Supreme Court victory for Travelers arising out of a bankruptcy case in New York.” “Warren represented not just Travelers, but numerous other companies starting in the late 1990s working out of and using her Harvard Law School office in Cambridge, which she listed as her office of record on briefs filed with various courts. Warren, however, never has been licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.” (Memeorandum thread)
- The Walkerville Weekly Reader
- In the end times, one newspaper dared to call God to task for His hypocrisy. That newspaper was not us, we swear it. Not the eternal flames!
More Elizabeth Warren
- Elizabeth Warren fights to deregulate insurance lawyers
- “I’m not like other Democrats who push regulations on other people then ignore the law themselves,” said Warren. “I believe in full deregulation of insurance company lawyers.”
- Elizabeth Warren decries illegal immigration
- Native American lawyer and Massachusetts senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren charges U.S. corporations with fostering illegal aliens.
More media bias
- Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
- Bernard Goldberg talks out of school about how alien the average person seems to the media elite, and tries to help us see why broadcast journalists sometimes appear to be from another planet.
- (Joe) Scarborough Fair
- The news media’s bias has gone from ideological to cult—a cult based on a person, not an issue or a collection of issues. They don’t care what President Obama does, says, or doesn’t do. They care only about making sure he is re-elected, regardless of the cost.
- The media’s lies work
- Why do journalists lie? Because they can.
- How biased is Fox News?
- I know it’s cliched to talk about media bias, but this interview struck me because it is supposedly an example of the most conservative bias you’ll find on the mainstream media.
- The media machine is calling me an asshole
- One side of the debt ceiling debate threatened to destroy our economy. One side just wanted to get along. One side wanted to restore fiscal sanity. Which side was extremist?
- 10 more pages with the topic media bias, and other related pages
More What If Bush Done It?
- Media debate: Bush or Romney at fault for economy?
- As the United States economy stalls again, newspaper and television reporters debate the important question: who is at fault?
- Bureaucracy or conspiracy?
- Is the federal government involved in a conspiracy to further the gulf oil spill?
- Only if you’re paying them
- If I lost my job, I’d be paying less in taxes, too.
- Don’t call us on spending; we’ll call you
- What does open government mean? It means the President gets to shut down open government.
- President Craig Belushi
- I apologize in advance for this. It was just too much fun to pass up.