Another sign of growing Web news popularity: ABCNews.com hit a five year high in October with more than 138 million page views, showing a 77 percent increase from Oct. 2005, the network says. ABC cites Brian Ross' reporting on the Mark Foley/congressional page scandal as a key driver of site traffic.

The Investigative Unit's site traffic increased more than five times from the previous monthly average...



> Update: 12:17pm: ABCNews.com's "new high" is "less than a fifth of msnbc.com or yahoonews.com or cnn.com. All they do well is put out press releases," an e-mailer responds...