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Tony The Tiger interpretation: Freedom of expression does not exist unless freedom of expression is protected when and where the audience exists.



The following articles that I have nominated for the WP:OTD section of the main page seem to have generated 12,000 additional page views. Some were indirectly nominated at User:Zzyzx11/Archive24#Opinion request on prospective SAs.

Image Hook Date Date views Next day views Month total views Days with data Other days average Net views
2008Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was arrested for a number of corruption crimes, including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat that was being vacated by then-U.S. President-elect Barack Obama. 12/9/2009 23,674 15,842 63,237 31 818.0 37,880.1
1941Willie Gillis, one of Norman Rockwell's trademark characters, debuted on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. 10/4/2012 26,868 995 29,821 31 67.5 27,728.0
2003 – After Chicago police detective Jon Burge was discovered to have forced confessions from more than 200 suspects, Governor of Illinois George Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 prisoners and pardoned four more. (Stats based on Burge) 1/11/2013 23,193 1,126 29,200 31 168.3 23,982.4
1943The Saturday Evening Post published the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms, some of the most widely distributed paintings ever produced, in support of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms". 2/20/2013 23,064 1,334 32,900 28 327.0 23,744.0
1963Whaam!, now considered one of Roy Lichtenstein's most important works, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City. 9/28/2015 21,910 1,189 28,020 30 175.8 22,747.5
Detail from Fountain of Time sculpture 1920 – The Fountain of Time (detail pictured) opened as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent. 9/1/2011 18,630 20,415 29 66.1 18,497.8
1919Red Summer: Race riots erupted in Chicago after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period. 7/27/2010 14,999 339 18,048 26 112.9 15,112.2
2007 – Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovered a suitcase containing US$800,000 as it went through an x-ray machine in Buenos Aires, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as "Maletinazo" 8/4/2011 12,547 491 13,659 31 21.4 12,995.2
1962 – In a seminal moment for pop art, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. 7/9/2012 12,662 993 25,648 31 413.6 12,827.9
  *Pages that I created as the initial editor