United States: Turning to Europe for news. The threat of war in Iraq is
driving increasing numbers of Americans to international news websites in
search of the broader picture.
According to the audience analysis company Nielsen NetRatings, US traffic
to the UK's biggest news sites, BBC News Online and Guardian Unlimited,
has increased dramatically over the past year, reports Journalism.co.uk
media news website.
Jon Dennis, deputy news editor of the Guardian Unlimited web site said:
"We have noticed an upsurge in traffic from America, primarily
because we are receiving more e-mails from US visitors thanking us for
reporting on worldwide news in a way that is unavailable in the US media.
"American visitors are telling us they are unable to find the
breadth of opinion we have on our website anywhere else because we report
across the political spectrum rather than from just one perspective.
Journalism.co.uk website.
Nielsen NetRatings website.
http://www.indexonline.org/indexindex/20030225_unitedstates.shtml
