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August 09, 2007
all the news that's fit to air as a video clip

I may be the only person in the world who finds this annoying, but over the past year or so, CNN has started showing most of their news stories as video clips instead of text articles. They're probably doing this to force the site visitor to watch an ad first. In response, I stopped visiting CNN, because (1) watching video clips at work is a 'no-no' because it uses up network bandwidth, and (2) I can scan an article in 15-20 seconds and don't have the time to spend half an hour on a news site watching two minute video clips. It's a dumb strategy, in my opinion. One of CNN's competitors, MSNBC, posts links to BOTH video clips and text articles for the same story, leaving the reader to make the choice.


Posted by megabeth at August 9, 2007 08:25 AM
 
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You are not the only person who feels this way! I use Yahoo sometimes and when they have a video-only story, that link simply does NOT get clicked on. Even if there is no ad, the bandwidth and time to view a video is not worth it to me--even IF there is no text option.

Posted by: Stan at August 9, 2007 10:02 AM


 
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