So what were the most linked-to stories on MediaGuardian last week?
1 Channel 4 to be censured over controversial climate film
2 Read Giles Coren's letter to Times subs
3 How to pose for your byline picture
4 Sam Delaney talks to Dominic West
5 Sienna Miller in tabloid privacy complaint over holiday pics
We have the Jeff Rense Program to thank for traffic to that climate change story. The American talk show host normally likes to focus on the paranormal with a dose of anti-semitism thrown in and a sprinkling of alternative medicine. His link to the Channel 4 story drove a surge of traffic in that direction, anyway.
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That Giles Coren letter was absolutely everywhere, of course: a long list of sites linked to that but Popbitch, Football365 and Fark were main offenders. "Anger, real steaming fucking anger can make a man verbose," said Coren. Additionally, real steaming fucking anger can generate a lot of web traffic. Thanks for that, Giles.
John Dugdale's byline picture article - nearly eight years old, that one - is still paying, thanks to a link on Slate.com. That speak volumes for the vanity of hacks.
The Dominic West/The Wire interview is still going down well, courtesy of the Huffington Post. And HuffPo also fed us well this week, sending a stream of people through to our story on Sienna Miller filing a writ against the News of the World for breaching her privacy with those racy pics of her and Balthazar Getty in Italy.
