{"id":755,"date":"2016-01-25T11:55:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T16:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/?p=755"},"modified":"2016-01-25T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:25:15","slug":"has-medjugorje-today-abandoned-its-audience-we-miss-you-mt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/2016\/01\/25\/has-medjugorje-today-abandoned-its-audience-we-miss-you-mt\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Medjugorje Today.tv ? – We Miss You MT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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By Stephen Ryan<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few years ago Medjugorjetoday.tv took the internet by storm by bringing important Medjugorje news stories to a worldwide \u00a0audience. They did this \u00a0in a smart, professional manner. It was a wonderful and important \u00a0news resource.<\/p>\n

And its audience grew incredibly fast.<\/p>\n

As the pondering dinosaurs of Main Stream Catholic press ignored the Medjugorje phenomena, Medjugorje Today exploded onto the Catholic media scene. The growth in Medjugorje Today\u2019s website traffic and social media prominence was unprecedented in a religious space.<\/p>\n

For example, two mainstays of Catholic press, in business for decades, are National Catholic Reporter and National Catholic Register, and over the years, they each have accumulated a little over 85,000 Facebook page \u201cLikes\u201d.<\/p>\n

Astonishingly, Medjugorje Today has 119,000 Facebook page \u201d likes\u201d and they launched sometime in 2007, I believe.<\/p>\n

119,000 Facebook \u201clikes\u201d is a really big number in the world of Catholic media.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s new media environment, page views, audience engagement, and social media market share are what matter.<\/p>\n

I am not sure if it is amusing or sad that an upstart Catholic internet news organization would surpass in relevance, as measured by social media, \u00a0two prominent journalistic enterprises because of their editorial ban on writing about Medjugorje.<\/p>\n

But now I wonder where Medjugorje Today has gone. I have spoken with people in the know about the situation and they\"medjugorjetoday.tv\" tell me two things.<\/p>\n

1. The Medjugorje Today editor has pulled back from reporting on Medjugorje because of the proclamation \u00a0made by the Catholic Church against participating in activities that assume that Medjugorje is \u201cauthentic\u201d. \u00a0At Mystic Post we are not troubled by the Church\u2019s statements on Medjugorje because we will accept the Church\u2019s final ruling on Medjugorje and we like to think we are simply reporting on a big story of a spiritual nature. We are discerning.<\/p>\n

2. My understanding is Medjugorje Today is charging a monthly fee to \u201csubscribers\u201d who want more timely \u00a0and exclusive stories about Medjugorje, so they have basically stopped updating their free website.<\/p>\n

I am all for free enterprise and if that is the direction Medjugorje Today \u00a0wants to go then they should have the freedom to do so. I do feel though \u00a0they may have let a segment of their audience down, however.<\/p>\n

At Mystic Post we have a wonderful group of writers who know the Medjugorje story well. We will be bringing you all the breaking news on Medjugorje as quickly as possible. But in today\u2019s \u00a0new media world we need your help.<\/p>\n

It would mean the world to all of us here at Mystic Post \u00a0if you could LIKE US US ON FACEBOOK \u2013 IT MATTERS IN TODAY\u2019S NEW MEDIA WORLD! <\/a>
\nThanks<\/p>\n

Stephen Ryan<\/p>\n

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