franc11s

Interested in your thoughts. I think the news web sites are making a major mistake... Here is my two cents.... What do you think?

CNN/Fox and now my local 11alive (Atlanta) news web sites insist on more and more, of putting stories up as video. There are two reasons the news sites are wrong:

1. I can't LISTEN to video at work. It's too obvious when you have to listen to sound
2. When I'm at home, I rarely want to listen to news on my computer.

Now I used to flick through 10 news stories quickly in 5 mins at work. Now, since most of the decent latest news is in video (to save news sites money), I don't bother.

Just me ?

snowbunny

Nope me too for the reasons you mentioned; also I don't give a fluck about the anchorperson's hair style.

It also consumes a lot of bandwidth which can be a PITA.

Celsius

For me, it's more annoying to have pop ups with sound!

Have you looked at other news sites that don't use video as much for reporting their news?

anotherlimey

Are they replacing a regular article with the video?

It might be a way of forcing you to watch an ad before the content - presuming they showed you an ad?

rincewind

It's okay for me to view video at work plus I have headphones for audio work so I don't disturb anyone.

CNN are pretty good as they tend to provide a text article with the video.

I much prefer the video as it allows me to work while I listen. I'm typing this while watching a video on hurricane science

franc11s

2 Problems is 1. The video is 5 x slower than I can read and the other is that there is often no text now, just the video. they are losing out to BBC for me. BBC is quick (real fast on my PDA) and they report straight to the point.

Wildandcrazy0525

I hear ya, and agree, simple solution, go to www.news.google.com, no pop-ups and no video!

Wild

rincewind

Yuck!!! BBC's video quality is so poor I can't watch it. Use a better format and I'd be more inclined to view them.

dan_alford

I think its just news.google.com. It gives text headlines and you can add different sections, e.g. I have the US sections plus the UK, UK sports and UK entertainment sections. You can also add a keyword news section, which I have done for my home town in England, but you can add it for any keyword you want.