The Crikey Reality Check of what stories people are actually reading on internet news sites has this week reached a record level and will go higher before the week ends, writes Richard Farmer.
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Reality check: Interest reaches a new low
This morning’s Reality Check shows the lowest reading since the campaign started - just four election stories out of the 50 in the top five most read lists of the 10 internet news sites we survey! On eight of those sites politics did not make it at all as the trend towards declining interest continues apace.
Reality check: Ready for the real start
The warm up is nearly over. With the Melbourne Cup out of the way perhaps public interest in the election race will begin.
Reality check: The election still isn’t rating
What the Coalition campaign team needs is a few more of these winning days when people really are interested in the election. Our daily survey of what people are reading on the news websites suggests that time has not yet come.
Reality check: And the reader’s interest wanes
The smallest number of federal politics since the election campaign started appear on today’s Reality Check list of the five most read stories on 10 media websites, writes Richard Farmer.
Tax v. Marcia Hines: a good day for a reality check
The chasm between what newspaper editors select as news and what their readers actually read could not be more marked than what is shown this morning by comparing front pages and the list of most read stories on the websites of the same papers.
