Posts tagged “news media”

Yuck! BBC News has a new look and it's awful: too busy, lots of headlines with no detail behind...Feb 19, 2003

BBC News redesigned their site and it's a mess. It looks like a worse version of CNN, which is itself losing to Fox News. I'd already moved to The Times for its cleaner layout, and this just confirms I made the right call.

I'm beginning to buy into this whole CNN-makes-the-news conspiracy. People were beginning to get...Oct 28, 2002

CNN is clearly funding global terrorism to boost ratings. The sniper got caught just as interest waned, conveniently replaced by a Moscow hostage crisis, then a school shooting. For less than a Friends episode, you can bankroll a lot of mayhem. How long until you drop the bomb, CNN?

So, you're the police chief, and a mysterious sniper is running around several states randomly...Oct 22, 2002

Mocking CNN's DC sniper coverage for fanning panic, celebrating a wild Birmingham clubbing weekend including an impromptu wet t-shirt competition, and puzzling over a Macromedia knockoff site and bizarre Iraqi protest footage.