Churchill v. University of Colorado: Weak Coverage but Substantial Interest

We've noted already on this Blog that the level of press coverage of Churchill v. University of Colorado has been modest at most.  The Denver Post and the Daily Camera (Boulder) have provided modest coverage with the articles in the Denver Post usually short and appearing some where other than the front page of any section. 

Yet we note that if Blog activity is any indication, there is still substantial interest in the matter.  This blog usually receives about 1000 page views each weekday.  On Tuesday, March 10, the Blog received 5,154 page views.  On Wednesday, it was somewhere around 4000.  And, of course, these are the people who can find the Blog (a site that only starting posting about the trial on Friday, March 6). 

The five fold increase in activity suggests that as papers reduce their coverage, there is nonetheless considerable demand for detailed reporting of important events.

Comments

[Heidi]

Why do you delete the comments? There were a few good comments on some of the blogs and now they're gone?

[Roscoe]

One explanation for your meteoric rise in poularity is the almost universal perception that you are objective and even-handed in your reporting of the trial. After all, when such diverse blogs as the anti-Churchill Pirate Ballerina, and the pro-Churchill http://wardchurchilltrial.wordpress.com/, both sing your praises, you must be doing something right. Keep it up.

[Peter Schmidt]

While I appreciate the good work you are doing, your post here does a disservice to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the only national publication (on higher education or otherwise) that has sent a reporter out to provide coverage of the case. I should know; I'm the Chronicle reporter who flew out to Denver to cover the opening statements and crank out a story that night. (The link to the daily online story is http://chronicle.com/daily/2009/03/13370n.htm. The link to the print version is http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i28/28a01401.htm) We'll have more coverage of the trial later on.

Peter Schmidt
Senior Writer
The Chronicle of Higher Education

P.S. Your readers interested in the legal status of academic freedom at public colleges will likely find the following article useful: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i25/25a00103.htm

[MisterN]

This is THE authoritative website for coverage of the current trial. That's why you are drawing so many hits.

And we appreciate you keeping your comments section free of posts rehashing arguments imported from other websites. We appreciate you keeping out comments that are designed to repeatedly promote websites owned by the person making the comment. Please keep up the good work.