It’s always interesting (and refreshing) to read opinions about online news
sites from people outside the industry. Yesterday, I stumbled across Kirk
McElhearn‘s article, “Why
Haven’t Online Newspapers Gotten It Right?” McElhearn focuses mainly on
problems of news-site presentation. The article is worth a quick read. My
favorite quote:
“As newspapers dumb down their presentation in order to fight the
clickitis of modern readers, they do themselves a disservice, and end up
killing off many of their potential readers. In addition, they fill their
pages with annoying flashing, moving ads, which will scare off ever more
readers, at least those who don’t use ad-blocking software.”
