Can you find the news on CBSNews.com?
CBS Evening News is what many consider a serious news show, but I wouldn't have guessed it looking at an article landing page recently:
Or more clearly ...
That's a whole 80 words of text show up above the digital fold. Count 'em.
Compare this to the gorgeous, content rich NYTimes.com article page:
And that was a really good story CBS did, but it's buried under some dreck about Dancing with the Stars, flashing ads, celebrity gossip, say-nothing teaser headlines and Katie Couric's smiling mug, not to mention free ads for Twitter, Digg and Facebook.
Just a shame, that's all.
- By michael morisy at 2010-05-21 19:12
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