WHO ARE THE CONVERTED ?

A suggestion has been made that the blog is merely preaching to the converted and, as people tend to watch the news every day, I am just reiterating what people already know. In particular as it affects the United States. It is certainly the case that there are a number of broadcasters on various channels across the United States, with much larger platforms than Blogger.com.

On CNN alone, we have Brianna Keilar, Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Wolf Blitzer, Jim Acosta; on the comedic side, the talk shows. On CBS there is The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and on NBC The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon; on radio there are phone in shows, the Thom Hartmann program and Alan Watts on KPFK in Los Angeles.

As against that, we have Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager and the man fired by Fox News for sexual harassment Bill O’Reilly (still broadcasting). They are all plugging away at various theories as to how the democrats stole the election. They are all listened to by a great number of Americans who believe the trash they spew out, and they are all very wealthy because of those numbers of listeners. There are many more divisive pundits who claim that they and their followers are the true American patriots and defenders of the Constitution. There is of course, Fox News, long-time supporters of Donald Trump’s presidency, and six-year-old rising star Newsmax TV, broadcasting nationwide with “Real News for Real People and Better Talk”.

In short, there are many outlets on cable, radio and the web that clearly have much larger audiences and more highly paid pundits than fbuffnstuff.blogspot.com. So please forgive my rants and obsessions. I did put out a video on You Tube on the 12^th October addressed “To Donald Trump Supporters” asking them to carefully consider what they were voting for. To date it has had only 61 views. So clearly not seen by many and, more than likely, not seen by any Donald Trump supporters.

Also, I do not know anyone who is a supporter of Donald Trump and certainly none of the people I bother with my blog holds a view (so far as I can tell) that would conflict seriously with any appraisal I might express in the blog. So, in effect preaching to the converted is about all I can do.

I am surprised to find on the statistics relating to the blog that there have been 609 entries to date from the very first one on the 29^th January 2011. There were no entries at all in 2014 and 2019, and between 2015 and 2018 there were only 25. Since the 12^th November 2020 there have been 23 entries.  Surprisingly, given the lack of posts in the last 7 years, there have been 183,817 views of the various entries over the last 9 years. Assuming the viewers have also read the pieces, the audience is as follows:

United States 74.8K; Russia. 31.8K; Ukraine. 11.8K; United Kingdom. 11.3K; France. 8.42K; Germany 8.06K; Turkmenistan. 3.38K; Poland 2.04K; Canada 1.95K; India 1.13K; Unknown Region 754; United Arab Emirates 626; Brazil 564; China 515; Spain 497; Turkey 378; Netherlands 373; Ireland 356; Mauritius 300; Other 24.8K.

In the last 30 days however, there have been 3440 views, 2720 of which have been in Russia and only 160 in the United States. So, 90 Russians a day have a glance, whereas only 5 Americans do. I can only assume my comments are of more interest in Eastern Europe than in the West. I do not know why that is, and since I have expressed an aversion to what is going on in Eastern Europe, I am even more puzzled. Perhaps my real audience awaits: