MSNBC.com sets traffic record, launches blog

Cory Bergman April 17th, 2007

On Monday with the Virginia Tech shooting, MSNBC.com says it set a new all-time record with 15.3 million unique users in a single day, a 37-percent increase over its previous record high with Katrina. The site also logged 10 million video streams — another site record. MSNBC.com says it surpassed CNN.com in streams served for the day.

Also, MSNBC.com launched a blog dedicated to covering the shooting, On The Scene. Four MSNBC.com staffers are on the ground in Blacksburg covering the story.

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  • 1. tbs  |  April 17th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    Oh God!

    I have had enough of these self serving “journalists” down in Virginia. From Matt Lauer to Stone Phillips to Katie Columbine… Please! Spare me with the mock concern when you interview people involved in the grieving process. You are looking for the story and the story only. You are looking for reaction shots so you grind and grind away. It has been just over 24 hours and you are looking to rile up these poor people. I saw them do this first hand during 9/11, I was a witness to Ashley Banfield putting dirt on her face before she went on MSNBC!

    Stone Phillips interviewing a father the night after his daughter was shot dead and pushing him as best he could, looking for the father’s tears or anger. Then, contritely whispers, “this is Stone Phillips…” Please, you are all fake!

  • 2. unsurelok  |  April 17th, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    So is the .3 user the same .3 that was part of the 2.3 kids the average household had back in the 70’s?

    And they gotta be proud about those other 15, heck send them all a MSNBC mug.

  • 3. Hairy  |  April 17th, 2007 at 6:41 pm

    cnn wasnt far behind at 9.2 million videos served up on monday.

  • 4. Cory  |  April 17th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    Added the million, was fast-blogging again.

  • 5. Curt Heckman  |  April 17th, 2007 at 6:50 pm

    After the shameless, unprincipled, cynical manner in which MSNBC handled the Imus affair, I cannot in good conscience watch any of their programming anymore. They are tainted in my eyes. It does not surprise me that the “journalists” they employ, such as Stone Phillips, come across as utter frauds.

  • 6. Jason  |  April 17th, 2007 at 7:23 pm

    As a journalist, even when you’re trying to get the story, it’s impossible to not be touched by a story of this magnitude. Give these guys a break. How cynical of you to call it “mock concern.” You have no idea what you’re talking about.

  • 7. tbs  |  April 17th, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    Excuse me Jason?

    I can not tell you how wrong you are regarding my credentials, I am quite confident in them.

    I know fake when I see it. I know inceted “journalism” when I see it.

    There are “hords” (WAPO) of sat trucks with thousands of reporters parked inside the campus right now. Everyone is battling for “the” interview. Climbing all over eachother just to get the “Six o’cock bite”. For God’s sake, man, it even shamed Tucker Carlson! He said it live, he was ashamed by it all!

    Yet they are still there.

    Regarding the incitefullness one, of Mr Phillips, I ask you Edward R Murrow, did you see it? Did you see the interview? Did you see the “fake posture” at the end of the show?

    Just watch Katie “touch our hearts” with her reaching out to another family member and consoling them. After all, it is her beat…

    You have no clue as to who you are talking to. No clue as to my cred…

  • 8. Jason  |  April 17th, 2007 at 7:54 pm

    No question some of them are phonies. I just question the blanket statements. And I was wrong to make a blanket statement defending them all.

    You are right: I have no clue who you are. I don’t hide my identity when I make incorrect blanket statements. My belief is you can be out for the “get”, out for the “story” and still be a human being with compassionate reactions.

  • 9. tbs  |  April 17th, 2007 at 8:02 pm

    Jason, we work for the same Company, I am in NYC and can not put my id up on the internet… Sorry, Network rules…

  • 10. unsurelok  |  April 17th, 2007 at 8:06 pm

    Just playin’ Cory

  • 11. Swift Loris  |  April 17th, 2007 at 9:34 pm

    I’ve always gone straight to the TV for any major event. For the first time, I stuck with the Web for information about the Virginia Tech tragedy and found it much more satisfying. Of course, unlike with, say, the tsunami and Katrina, there wasn’t a whole lot of visual interest to this story. But there was a lot less revolting phoniness and exploitation on the Web, and I could skip the trivia and bathos.

  • 12. Edward R. Murrow  |  April 18th, 2007 at 2:38 pm

    It seems pretty distasteful to crow about traffic numbers and beating CNN so soon after such a tragic event. Did Mr. Seung-Hui provide a business opportunity? I know this is part of the news business but my god, wait a couple weeks before you start patting yourself on the back

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