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The Reading Habits Of The Average Brisneyland Resident
Posted by Clem Bastow at 11:49 AM on June 10, 2008
As newspapers have become more and more hip to the whole internets thing, it's been fun keeping tabs on who's reading what, such as News.com.au's "most clicked" articles round-up at the end of last year (which revealed its readers were more interested in levitation and aliens than politics).
'Most read' lists are a fairly telling portrait of a readership, so it was rather amusing to see what the Brisbane Times browsers were hitting this morning (via the 'Readers' most viewed' pane at the bottom of TheAge.com.au's front page):
It is probably funnier - in that whole inter-state-rivalry way, at least - when you see it up against the Sydney Morning Herald and Age top fives, which feature the new iPhone, soccer, politics and the price of living.
It's good to see that our friends up in sunny Queensland are keeping the dream alive for all those who think stories about dead men killing their wives, cancer-causing blowjobs and dogs choking on cane toads are what real journalism is all about!
Comments
Gnome
Posted June 10, 2008 12:10 PM
I feel it's only fair to point out that the Brisbane Times is not a real newspaper - it's online trash that no one I know in Brisbane actually reads. The Courier Mail isn't much better, but assuming the Brisbane Times is what the average Brisbanite is reading is false.
Briz_Lad
Posted June 10, 2008 3:07 PM
I would post a witty retort but I'm physically unable to tear my fiendish mind away from crass news items appearing in my bloglines.
acrepeanimal
Posted June 10, 2008 11:16 PM
heh, i've been noticing that for a while actually.
Bill Cosby
Posted June 11, 2008 9:01 AM
Me like forex and football. me brisbane man.
Will
Posted June 11, 2008 1:20 PM
Check today's top five for The Age and you'll see we're not more high brow - we just take a little longer to catch on.
THE AGE
Articles
1. Oral sex blamed for throat cancer rise
2. Beware the honeymoon moon
3. Actor Everett apologises for calling UK soldiers wimps
4. Steve Jobs unveils Apple's new 3G iPhone
5. The white, the black and the ugly
Notice number two's a travel story with only the briefest mention of catching a couple in flagrante on an isloated beach. We're all perverts, Mexicans, roaches and cane toads alike.