Why do British news papers have more appeal?

comScore suggests Britain is the online home of truth | Between the Lines ZDNet.comcomScore, a company that has received permission from more than 2 million people to monitor their online behavior, has released findings that suggest when the world is looking for the truth, or at least an approximation, it logs on to British media sites.
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Strangely, it is the Daily Mail, a newspaper of tabloid proportions that walks several very fine lines- those of right of center politics, old-fashioned civic pride, women’s underwear and entertainment stories with a remarkably large number of words attached to them, that appears to have become one of the world’s truly popular online ‘news’ destinations.
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Startling too is the performance of the Guardian Media Group, a somewhat left of center newspaper that chooses, in its paper edition, to be published in the not-tabloid, not-broadsheet form called the Berliner.

It never occurred to me to check the Daily Mail. (Do they put the Page 3 girls online?) But I've been reading The Guardian online for years. It's not just a truth issue, it's a perspective issue. U.S. papers report too much U.S.-only news, and what international news they report tends to be only insofar as it relates to the U.S.. This doesn't seem to be as true of The Guardian or the BBC. Maybe it comes of being an ex-colonial power, I don't know.

I do think a lot of the credit to their growing international readership has to go to Google News. Most of the sites I've added to my daily news reading got their because I noticed that I kept liking their articles when I read them in Google News.

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By Kee Hinckley on February 18, 2008 3:14 PM | | Comments (0)

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