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Progressive Blogosphere is the Cream of the Crop

Submitted by Bob Fertik on April 26, 2006 - 6:42pm.

Bloggers like Chris Bowers are having fun analyzing the results of the latest Blogads Reader Survey. Let me add some fun comparisons with the Web audiences of NYTimes.com and WashingtonPost.com:

  College
Grads		 Income Age Wrote
Politician
DemBlogs 80% $80K Median 46 Median 80%
RepBlogs 76% $90-100 Med 41-50 Med 68%
NYTimes.com 75% $84K Mean 46.5 Mean 45%
WaPo.com 72% $70K Median  

So what can we say about this data?

  • Democratic blog readers are the best-educated group of all
  • Republican blog readers are the richest group, with Democratic blog readers second (the NY Times mean total is skewed by millionaires, and the Washington Post is read largely by middle-income bureaucrats)
  • The audiences are around the same ages
  • Democratic blog readers are the most active group of all

You, dear reader of progressive blogs, are the cream of the crop - the kind of reader that advertisers covet most.

Bill Keller and Leonard Downie, you are suicidal morons for treating us with contempt - rather than the respect we deserve!

Update 1: Via Matt Stoller, Kevin Drum says 10 million Democrats read blogs every day or a few times a week. That means we get as many readers as the New York Times web site (73% readers 10 or more days per month * 12.96 million U.S. readers.)