Not in any class I will ever teach or any desk I will ever work on.

It’s the whole story. What more do you need to know?

“Air Strikes & Mass Death Again.” Now maybe I might click.

the video links are more irritating, because CNN most of the time does not provide a text alternative, and I have to sit through a story (or delay sitting through it, if I am at work) just to find out what happened when the dog got CPR.

making matters worse, in recent times they have dumbed down the headlines “below the fold,” too, so it’s getting increasingly hard to find hard news at CNN. it’s all “click bait.”

i thought it was my extreme case of dyslexia, so i was afraid to mention anything.

i’ll take a little different position than “it’s all about the headline” though. i think (for the locals) it’s all about what you do AFTER you get the click. are you content being a one-hit wonder? if the cnn deal hasn’t tied their hands, they’d do well to try to endear themselves to the viewer to return again and again.

alexa numbers indeed show this deal has had a positive effect on some, but not all, stations’ web channels. BUT the effect is short lived. i guess if you are from the camp where you don’t put all your eggs in a single basket you’d look (and figure out ways) to leverage these opportunities.

these are smart people though.

we’ll see.

But my in-house news people want us to use Title Case, in which every word except articles and connecting words are Capitalized. Both formats are considered legit, but what’s the feel out there amongst the Lost Remote community?

Web producer should really look at the law of diminishing returns. I think the biggest mistake of this redesign is the home page. There is far too much there, it feels unorganized and the design is so difficult to scan.

I find myself having more and more difficulty taking in the content of this page. Before the redesign, I could scan this page and have a sense of that was going on in the world on any give day. Now (in addition to feeling that they are pandering with tabloid type stories and less substantial video reports), I can’t even scan it well.

If you want a test, look at the difference between the top headline areas on cbsnews.com and CNN.com. Look at the balance of the top story and the headlines list, the number of headlines and the space between the headlines list.

I really believe most people’s comprehension increases and they have a better reaction to a list that doesn’t feel overwhelming.

(Now, if you’re use to looking at a long list of AP stories in a newsroom computer, you have to try to put yourself into the shoes of the normal person who is checking a news site between meetings or other online activities. )