As ever, on the button.
However:
Is news always and only news?<\/p>\n
I am absolutely on board for your view of the WTC coverage, but isn’t this a case where straight hard facts and speed were the essentials?<\/p>\n
In the case of the local water company digging up a road for three months, shouldn’t I have the opportunity at the end of the story to e-mail the chairman? Or place a vote urging them to do the work during next summer? Or even contact like-minded people so we can go and picket his house?<\/p>\n
Of course, in this case, opinion is more important than fact. So what if the road is being dug up for 3 months? ARE YOU CRAZY?!? IT’LL MEAN CHAOS! I take my kids to school on this route and it already takes 30 minutes. How on earth can I visit my old mum in the retirement home if there’s a 14-mile traffic jam outside the flats?<\/p>\n
Yes, web news pages are over-designed, to serve the tastes of web designers, not users. Even the BBC is a cluttered mess. But we can’t completely ignore the interactivity and present flat facts, that’s not the nature of the medium.<\/p>\n
Simon Crane has spent 15 years as a UK editor and journalist.<\/I> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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