I used to like CNN because its web site is more like Google’s site: more plain texts, fewer pictures, less colorful and more importantly fewer videos. MSNBC and ABCNews are too “colorful” to my taste.
But recently CNN also joins the rest of news website and includes “too many and too colorful pictures.” I like to read pages like Google’s site - having just black and occasionally blue text and few large pictures. On my iPhone, it often becomes too slow to download, too sluggish to scroll and too hard to hunt down any text to read. That is, to me, there is too little information on most screens (on my phone.) They use the screen estate not efficiently and force me to keep waiting for a web page to finish its download.
Do you use any other news site that is less colorful, faster to download and has fewer pictures and videos? Granted, our Internet connection is occasionally not that great and the slower connection speed makes it unpleasant to browse these sites with too many pictures. But I am not willing to upgrade my internet service or to LTE on my phone.
I am not particularly talking about the contents or the leaing of the web sites here. I only talk about the design of the web site. (But not too extreme though.)
Some very basic financial news may be good also - occasionally I may want to know whether the stock is in the bear or bull market in general. And a few retirement tips may be useful also. Look like not a single site could meet my need.
Speaking of CNN, wondering what is going on with them ceasing nightly news coverage so early in the evening. After 9pm mountain time I only get those endless Anthony Bourdain and Lisa Ling re-runs. I get that it is 11pm eastern but I remember their news coverage used to be pretty much 24/7. Really do not know what they are thinking - the repetition of the same segments night after night. I have just about given up on them.
9pm is not an unrealistic time for a person to expect to get a re-cap of the days news events.
I am not really a serious reader about anything. It is more about light “edutainment” mostly or do not want to be too ignorant about what is happening in the world.
CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker said, “The best journalism is, at its core, great storytelling. We are so pleased to welcome some of the finest storytellers in the business to CNN, to join the award-winning team of world class journalists and storytellers who have made CNN the home to this kind of quality programming for more than 30 years. The seamless integration of original series and live news coverage, which has been on display the last two months, is the foundation of our new primetime lineup.”
If you go to the CNN RSS site, you get just the headlines and the first few sentences of the stories. If you see a story of interest you can click on it and go to the regular site to read it. When you go to the story, you will get all the pictures and video links, but at least you can skip the annoying home page.
TV, radio, newspaper, and real life people. But, I live in a world that is over-filed with media so that’s probably the difference. I just never thought about it before, now.
I scan the NYTimes and WSJ home pages most everyday to see what’s of interest (I’m an online subscriber to both).
I used to respect CNN, but for me the “shark-jumping” piece was when they followed the flight of some guy who claimed to be involved with the Jon Benet case on his flight from Thailand back to the US - reporting all the way on every time the guy ate something or used the bathroom - and the guy turned out to be just some nutjob who had nothing to do with the case and just wanted attention. I dislike how they take a story and hammer the heck out of it. I will turn them on if I want a quick hit, but otherwise it’s the NYTimes / WSJ websites for me. I also like to listen to NPR in the car.
BBC is pretty good–not so much sensationalism and more international perspective. I like it, even tho it doesn’t cover quite as much US news. Hawaii News Now is pretty good–our local news.
I used to look at the cnn news website several times a day. I no longer look at it since they changed the interface – I hate it (especially the awful scrolling text on the bottom)!