Comments on: THE POWER OF THE JUMP: http://patterico.com/2003/05/08/the-power-of-the-jump/ Harangues that just make sense Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:30:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Patterico’s Pontifications » The Power of the Jump™: In Determining Whether Someone Committed Suicide, Is It Important Whether They Were Suicidal and Had Previously Tried to Commit Suicide? Then How’s About Telling Us That on the Front http://patterico.com/2003/05/08/the-power-of-the-jump/#comment-40302 Patterico’s Pontifications » The Power of the Jump™: In Determining Whether Someone Committed Suicide, Is It Important Whether They Were Suicidal and Had Previously Tried to Commit Suicide? Then How’s About Telling Us That on the Front Sun, 28 May 2006 20:19:39 +0000 /?p=274#comment-40302 [...] In my first “Power of the Jump”™ post, I said: Numerous studies show that the overwhelming majority of readers do not bother to follow the story past the jump line [where a front-page story continues on to the back pages]. . . . By the way, everybody at the newspapers is acutely aware of this syndrome. I recently spoke to a Dog Trainer reporter and expressed my concern that the story he was writing would bury the relevant facts on the back pages. I told him that it was my impression that most readers do not follow stories past the jump. He forthrightly replied: “That’s what all the studies show.” [...] [...] In my first “Power of the Jump”™ post, I said: Numerous studies show that the overwhelming majority of readers do not bother to follow the story past the jump line [where a front-page story continues on to the back pages]. . . . By the way, everybody at the newspapers is acutely aware of this syndrome. I recently spoke to a Dog Trainer reporter and expressed my concern that the story he was writing would bury the relevant facts on the back pages. I told him that it was my impression that most readers do not follow stories past the jump. He forthrightly replied: “That’s what all the studies show.” [...]

]]> By: damnum absque injuria http://patterico.com/2003/05/08/the-power-of-the-jump/#comment-16 damnum absque injuria Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=274#comment-16 <strong>Daily Journal Strikes Out (Again)</strong> Long time readers of either my blog or Stefan's may have heard of the L.A. Daily Urinal, or the Frisco Daily Urinal, which are essentially Northern and Southern California versions of the same paper. The paper, which is not available... Daily Journal Strikes Out (Again)
Long time readers of either my blog or Stefan’s may have heard of the L.A. Daily Urinal, or the Frisco Daily Urinal, which are essentially Northern and Southern California versions of the same paper. The paper, which is not available…

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