Media outlets across the nation snatched Carolina Journal‘s story this week of a 4-year-old Hoke County girl who ended up eating three chicken nuggets for lunch at preschool because an adult branded as insufficient a home-packed meal featuring a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, banana, apple juice, and chips. Carolina Journal Online, which typically attracts about 3,400 visits and 14,000 page views a day, attracted 100,000 visitors Tuesday, generating 200,000 page views. Those numbers jumped to 120,000 visitors and 230,000 page views Wednesday. Associate Editor Sara Burrows discussed her reporting in live interviews with Fox News and CNN, as well as radio stations WTKF (Morehead City), WSIC (Statesville), WGST (Atlanta), and KNRS (Salt Lake City). Burrows also spoke with Wall Street Journal Radio and NRANews.com’s “Cam and Company.” Rush Limbaugh read most of Burrows’ story to his top-rated nationally syndicated radio audience, and later read the opening paragraphs of an update describing how Burrows’ initial report prompted a letter to the head of the U.S. Agriculture Department from two members of the N.C. congressional delegation. The Drudge Report plastered Burrows’ original story at the top of its home page. In addition to the interview with Burrows, Fox News covered the story multiple times, including the Bill O’Reilly program and Gerri Willis‘ Fox Business program. The U.S. Department of Agriculture responded to the article on its blog. Other media outlets and blogs that covered the story — usually crediting Carolina Journal — include CBS Television’s “This Morning,” Sean Hannity‘s radio program, Glenn Beck‘s “The Blaze,” Fox News Radio, Mark Steyn at National Review Online‘s “The Corner,” National Review Online‘s “The Home Front,” New York Daily News, Daily Mail, Human Events, Investors Business Daily, UPI (as “odd news” and a “watercooler” story), The Daily Caller, PJ Media’s Instapundit and PJ Tatler, HotAir.com’s Allahpundit and Howard Portnoy, Townhall.com, Huffington Post, Christian Post, Neal Boortz radio program, Reason Online, Lucianne.com, American Thinker, Newsbusters.org, Charlotte Observer, Fayetteville Observer, Greensboro News & Record‘s “Off The Record” blog, Burlington Times-News, WRAL Television, WTVD Television (Durham), WNCN Television (Raleigh), WSOC Television (Charlotte), News 14 Carolina, WFMY Television (Greensboro), WGHP Television (High Point) (with a follow-up report), WCTI Television (New Bern), San Francisco Chronicle blog, Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog, Houston Chronicle blog, St, Louis Post-Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kansas City Star blog, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Lew Rockwell, James Lileks‘ “The Bleat,” WorldNetDaily.com, The New American, Examiner.com’s “Strange News,” Examiner.com’s “NY Political Buzz,” Examiner.com’s “Spokane Conservative,” KTTV/KCOP Television (Los Angeles), two reports on KRIV Television (Houston), KIAH Television (Houston), WXYZ Television (Detroit), KTVI Television (St. Louis), WDAF Television (Kansas City), WHBQ Television (Memphis), WITI Television (Milwaukee), KMSP Television (Twin Cities), WMAR Television (Baltimore), WNWO Television (Toledo, Ohio), WJW Television (Cleveland), WEWS Television (Cleveland), WTAM Radio (Cleveland), WTKR Television (Norfolk, Va.), WQAD TV (Moline, Ill.), KMVU Television (Medford, Ore.), American Family News Network’s One News Now, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune blog, Greeley (Colo.) Gazette, Liberty News Online, Yahoo! Contributors Network, Newser.com, GOPUSA.com, Men’s News Daily, Texas Insider, BostInno, Sister Toldjah, Free North Carolina, Memeorandum.com, PunditAndPundette.com, OpposingViews.com, Patch.com, DietsInReview.com, About.com Pediatrics, InlandSoCal.com‘s “Momarama,” Top News New Zealand, The Stir‘s “Cafe Mom,” Gather.com, OpEdNews.com, Babble.com‘s “Strollerderby,” and SheKnows.com. The story even inspired a Comedy Central article and Weekly World News spoof.