Yesterday, the news of the Gateway Pundit’s bankruptcy filing was released to the public.
As outlined in yesterday’s statement, this resolution was made for enterprise causes. Nevertheless, for our devoted readers and trusted workers, there aren’t any deliberate modifications. We stay dedicated to delivering the identical high-quality every day information and journalism to America immediately.
The mainstream media started reporting this information in a feverish means with glee and half-truths. All of them had their faulty spin on the submitting. They have been misunderstanding what was happening, and easily speculating as to what our motives have been, what the details have been, and why it was taking place.
One of many lies they began repeating of their protection was that the visitors for the Gateway Pundit has gone down or plummeted.
In lots of experiences they tried to say that our visitors has gone down 62% since 2020, an outright lie. The Gateway Pundit is totally clear about our web site visitors. We hyperlink to it on each web page, it’s a blue button on the backside proper of each web page labelled “TGP Stats”, and it’s by means of a service known as StatCounter.com.
The artwork and science of measuring web site visitors isn’t exact, however throughout each dependable system it exhibits the identical factor: our Gateway Pundit visitors is considerably greater than in 2020.
Right here’s what the year-to-year 2020-2024 information exhibits, and as you possibly can see it does NOT present a decline in both web site visitors or in distinctive visits to the location:
The mainstream media has primarily based this lie on the best way that on-line web sites’ visitors is measured. One such service is known as ComScore. ComScore is just like StatCounter, and it requires web site directors to put a code or script on every web page in order that visitors will be counted. In 2020, TGP eliminated that code as a result of we didn’t belief their experiences. So immediately ComScore exhibits that our visitors is considerably down, regardless that that isn’t true – we eliminated their monitoring code.
ComScore’s statistics are then utilized by a hard-left weblog to trace and harass right-wing publications and journalists; one is named “The Righting.” They published a story that was based entirely off of the ComScore data, showing the wrong statistics and facts. This supply was then utilized by left-leaning media retailers to report these items as verified third-party details.
All they did was copy and paste the incorrect information, from the incorrect service, to help a incorrect conclusion: that TGP’s visitors was down when, in truth, it’s really considerably up.
TGP additionally makes use of Google Analytics to trace our web site visitors, and Google experiences the identical developments as StatCounter, regardless that they don’t present a public hyperlink to the information: TGP visitors is almost double that of 2020. Google Analytics proves that page-views to the GP web site have gone from between 24-32 million views to between 55-87 million page-views.
Right here’s our 2020 Google Analytics report:
And right here’s our 2024 Google Analytics report. Google modified the best way they show their experiences, so it’s just a little tougher to check the 2, however in case you have a look at the full page-views, and the full distinctive customers, you will discover the important thing information.
Are you able to guess whether or not the left-wing mainstream media is reporting the reality that visitors is considerably up, or whether or not they unfold the disinformation that it’s considerably down? I’m certain you realize that they selected the lie, as a substitute of the reality, as a result of of their minds the emotional agenda is extra vital than the details.
We reached out to a number of reporters concerned in selling this disinformation and requested them to appropriate their information and amend their tales.
To their credit score, Mediaite’s Alexander Griffing fixed his story to at least show that the traffic numbers were in dispute. He did this rapidly and was an entire skilled concerning the matter.
After which there was the Atlantic’s Paul Fahri. He wrote in the “Atlantic” that the Gateway Pundit traffic was down by over half. This, as I’ve defined, is just not true.
We reached out to Paul and requested him to appropriate his story. We confirmed him the proof, we defined the state of affairs, we mentioned certainly at the very least he would wish to clarify that the numbers have been moderately in dispute.
Absolutely a journalist with years working on the Washington Submit would need his readers to have the appropriate info, have the appropriate details, and draw the appropriate conclusions from these details.
Fahri informed us he didn’t care if it was true or not, he wasn’t going to replace the article. He informed us to go take it up with the supply he acquired the data from, and possibly simply take it up with ComScore themselves.
Right here’s Paul’s response, you possibly can see how readers get left with disinformation and outright lies in mainstream reporting when you’ve reporters as clearly smug as Paul:
NPR in fact repeated the same lying line about our traffic being down. It’s not even price attempting to have interaction with these hard-left zealots dedicated to disinformation.
As a substitute of correcting their errors, mainstream journalists revel of their errors. As a substitute of doing their jobs to get the story proper on a regular basis, they merely push the agenda and ignore the details. That is why America not reads these partisan disinformation retailers. That is why America fell out of affection with mainstream journalism.
That is the reality why the Gateway Pundit is getting extra web site visitors than ever earlier than. Regardless that we’re always harassed with lawfare, regardless that the federal government is attempting to push us off all social media platforms in a case now being decided before the Supreme Court, regardless that our advert platforms are attacked and even our advertisers are harassed by insane left-wing anti-free-speech zealots, regardless of every little thing they throw on the Gateway Pundit, we’re doing higher than ever.
Once I based the Gateway Pundit, I had no concept we might get so far. I had no concept our development can be this phenomenal. However I had one overriding perception: that if we informed the reality, and reported what different individuals have been afraid to report… that it could all work out and that individuals would learn us and help us.
I’m enormously proud that the Gateway Pundit and our wonderful staff of journalists have taken the nationwide lead on reporting concerning the unconstitutional COVID lockdowns and big state misinformation concerning the virus, the 2020 election fraud and cover-up, the January sixth present trials and political prisoners, limitless Biden scandals, and a lot extra.
Thanks for making the Gateway Pundit the primary supply of reports and opinion journalism in America.
