mainstream media messages on the purpose of the US, UK
and Australia's involvement with war - anti-terrorism, oil
interests and democracy in the region, the public are obviously craving 'behind the scenes' opinions as to what's really happening - and why."
On March 24, 2003 in the Lifestyle-Politics category, Hitwise recorded significant jumps in traffic to the following independent online media sources:
* http://www.michaelmore.com/ rose from a ranking of #30 to #9 since the 8th March, with over 8.1% of all visits bookmarking that site with an intention to return. Michael Moore's 'The Awful Truth' website features political parody and humour, Rage Against The Machine filmclips, and links to Dog Eat Dog Films, communities, political action organisations and research.
* http://www.indymedia.org/ rose from a ranking of #28 to
#12 with over 3.57% of all visits bookmarking that site with an intention to return. Indymedia is a collective of independent media organisations and hundreds of journalists offering
grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and
passionate tellings of truth.
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http://melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=44924&group=webcast
