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62 “We pay attention”: Ibid.
63 “most important, their social circle”: Ibid.
63 “make it available to publishers”: Ibid.
63 Americans lost more faith in news: “Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low; Public Evaluations of the News Media: 1985–2009,” Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Sept. 13, 2009, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, http://people-press.org/report/543/.
64 “New York Times and some random blogger”: Author’s interview with Yahoo News executive. Sept. 22, 2010. This interview was conducted in confidence.
65 unplugging from cable TV offerings: Erick Schonfeld, “Estimate: 800,000 U.S. Households Abandoned Their TVs for the Web,” TechCrunch blog, Apr. 13, 2010, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/13/800000-households-abandoned-tvs-web; “Cable TV Taking It on the Chin,” www.freemoneyfinance.com/2010/11/cable-tv-taking-it-on-the-chin.html; and Peter Svensson, “Cable Subscribers Flee, but Is Internet to Blame?” http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Cable-subscribers-flee-but-is-apf-3875814716.html?x=0.
65 “change the ad industry forever”: “Google Vice President: Online Video and TV Will Converge,” June 25, 2010, Appmarket.tv, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, www.appmarket.tv/news/160-breaking-news/440-google-vice-president-online-video-and-tv-will-converge.html.
66 know people who live near us: Bill Bishop, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), 35.
67 “watch television to turn your brain off”: Jason Snell, “Steve Jobs on the Mac’s 20th Anniversary,” Macworld, Feb. 2, 2004, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, www.macworld.com/article/29181/2004/02/themacturns20jobs.html.
67 thirty-six hours a week: “Americans Using TV and Internet Together 35% More Than a Year Ago,” nielsenwire, Mar. 22, 2010, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/three-screen-report-q409.
68 quit channel surfing far more quickly: Paul Klein, as quoted in Marcus Prior, Post-Broadcast Democracy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 39.
68 like your own personal TV channel: “YouTube Leanback Offers Effortless Viewing,” YouTube blog, July 7, 2010, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/07/youtube-leanback-offers-effortless.html.
69 onto the Big Board, and you’re liable to get a raise: Ben McGrath, “Search and Destroy: Nick Denton’s Blog Empire,” New Yorker, Oct. 18, 2010, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_mcgrath?currentPage=all.
70 “come to us for our judgment”: Jeremy Peters, “Some Newspapers, Tracking Readers Online, Shift Coverage,” New York Times, Sept. 5, 2010, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/business/media/06track.html.
71 gin up stories that will get clicks: Danna Harman, “In Chile, Instant Web Feedback Creates the Next Day’s Paper,” Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 1, 2004, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, www.csmonitor.com/2004/1201/p01s04-woam.html.
71 “creating content in response to audience insight”: Jeremy Peters, “At Yahoo, Using Searches to Steer News Coverage,” New York Times, July 5, 2010, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/business/media/05yahoo.html.
72 the newspaper’s most e-mailed stories: Jonah A. Berger and Katherine L. Milkman, “Social Transmission and Viral Culture,” Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series (Dec. 25, 2009): 2.
72 “Woman in Sumo Wrestler Suit”: Huffington Post, “The Craziest Headline Ever,” June 23, 2010, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/23/craziest-bar-ever-discove_n_623447.html.
72 sex with a horse: Danny Westneat, “Horse Sex Story Was Online Hit,” Seattle Times, Dec. 30, 2005, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002711400_danny30.html.
72 world’s ugliest dog: Ben Margot, “Rescued Chihuahua Princess Abby Wins World’s Ugliest Dog Contest, Besting