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What is Asia Times Online?Posted by Thomas Crampton on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 1:08 AM
Shawn Crispin, Southeast Asia editor of Asia Times Online, tells Thomas Crampton about the Thailand-based site claiming to have the highest traffic for any English-language news site about Asia. |
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Comments on What is Asia Times Online?
According to their alexa ranking, they're quite a bit behind the China Daily. They're listed at 17000 something, while the China Daily is sitting around 2,700. While Alexa isn't everything, that's a pretty big difference. Or do they mean online-only?
What is Asia Times Online?
One of Asia's most disreputable news sources, that's what it is.
@TianjinExpats
Not only is China Daily online and offline, but I think they would not consider state-supported media in the same category. In addition to that, yes, I think they are only counting online media. Be interesting to compare them with Time Asia, the IHT and FT in Asia. Sticking to online alone, is their claim credible?
@reader
Care to elaborate?
I am a European reader of ATOl. Asia Times Online is the best online newspaper (journal) since the turn of the century. Previously I read The Economist. Since the mid 90s, The Economist has become the "Pravda" of the Anglo-Saxon financial oligarchies, I stopped. ATOl also has some intellectually challenging stars like Henry K.C. Liu, Chan Akiya and Spengler. Good luck,
Janos
thomas - what other pan-asian online-online news sites are there? Easy to be the highest traffic in a category with little or no competition.
i dip in occasionally but find it has little to keep me there. It lacks the gossipy feel of a blog and can't compete with the likes of FT,etc, when it comes to genuine news and comment. seems to be a product without a purpose.
There is also Asia Sentinel.