By Matt Hurley for the TIB Network:
From WomensWallStreet:
Last Tuesday morning, WomensWallStreet.com (WWS) published my first-person account of a recent Northwest Airlines flight that I took from Detroit to Los Angeles called "Terror in the Skies, Again?" A heads up about this article went out in our Daily Cents email -- our subscriber newsletter which primarily features financial tips and information for women.
On Wednesday morning, the WWS page views were unusually high, something like 10 times the normal amount. Apparently our readers had been emailing the article to their friends, family and colleagues and everyone was reading it.
By Thursday morning, that number had again multiplied ten-fold. It felt like the shampoo commercial from my youth: they told two friends, then they told two friends, then they told two friends. We sat in the WWS offices reading through your emails, taking stock of what you had to say. As the afternoon went on, the number of people reading the article continued to increase and the telephone was ringing off the hook.
And then a powerful thing happened. The mainstream media started calling.
Matt's Chat
Viewers of our show on Saturday got this story "live and direct" and Hugh Hewitt's listeners got the story on Friday night. The blogosphere heavily covered this story and it looks like the mainstream media is finally picking it up...The story above answers a few questions that we had on the show...so if you caught our segment, you'll want to read the followup. The article also asks even more questions too...
