Heard On The Beat

By KAREN KAPLAN

Aug. 24, 1998 12 AM PT

Scandal Surfing: Plenty of people have said the Monica Lewinsky scandal is driving them crazy--but it’s also driving many to the World Wide Web.

Last Monday and Tuesday--peak days for the Zippergate affair--traffic to news-related sites rose 43% compared with the same days the previous week, according to RelevantKnowledge, an Atlanta firm that tracks Web usage. More than 3.5 million people visited 11 major news sites--including https://www.latimes.com--during the two-day period.

Allpolitics.com (https://www.allpolitics.com) was the big winner, with traffic surging 236%. Visits to the Washington Post’s site (https://www.washingtonpost.com) rose 81%, and CNN’s site (https://www.cnn.com) posted a 75% increase in traffic.

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Karen Kaplan

Karen Kaplan covers science and medical research for the Los Angeles Times. She has been a member of the science team since 2005, including 13 years as an editor. Her first decade at The Times was spent covering technology in the Business section as both a reporter and editor. She grew up in San Diego and is a graduate of MIT and Columbia University.

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