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Stories that resonated in 2011 — and will matter in 2012 - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Stories that resonated in 2011 — and will matter in 2012 - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Stories that resonated in 2011 — and will matter in 2012

Lists of most-read stories or blog posts are popular on the Internet, but I doubt they tell us all that much about what really matters to readers.

The fact that more people read a story about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt than about the U.S. debt ceiling doesn’t make the former more important than the latter — not even to the people who are reading, or, not reading, individual stories.

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