Celebrities in dresses out-clicks Democrats with hookers (via HuffPo):

POLITICS ARE FINE, BUT SHOW US THE DRESSES: The New York Times online broke the Eliot Spitzer scandal, invested untold energy and money on election coverage and went deep on Heath Ledger, but those weren’t the days that set total page view records. That honor goes to . . . the day after the Academy Awards, with its red-carpet slide shows, which presented the single biggest traffic day at 37.6 million page views. (In Style and Us Weekly, watch out.) Of course, those figures were followed closely by the two days of Super Tuesday coverage, the Spitzer affair and Ledger’s death, said Jim Roberts, editor of digital news at The Times, at the Mediabistro Circus on Wednesday.

Tune in next year for NRO’s special Oscar coverage!