April 03, 2006

New York Times Follows CNN

Both sites now uglier, harder to navigate!

Posted by binky at April 3, 2006 12:01 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Media


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I rarely pay any attention to CNN, so can't comment on that redesign. The New York Times, however, is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. I will see if it grows on me (unlikely), but I will have to consider another homepage fairly soon. In addition to the format change, they have dropped the section on "Washington", which means that political news has moved off the page (why?). They are now linking to the "most blogged" articles (sort of like the WaPo does), but fail to indicate which blogs are linking - all it does is list the NYT articles that are most linked. Big deal.

Overall, pretty shitty.

Posted by: baltar at April 3, 2006 01:25 PM | PERMALINK

But we're hooked, and they know it.

Posted by: binky at April 3, 2006 01:40 PM | PERMALINK

Are we really hooked? Honestly, I look at the Post much more than the Times, largely b/c the Times has long suffered from a poor design (not that the Post's is great).

Posted by: Armand at April 3, 2006 01:47 PM | PERMALINK

Exactly. There are reasons that all three piss me off, but we can't stay away.

Posted by: binky at April 3, 2006 01:51 PM | PERMALINK

Well, I need someplace to get news. I appreciated the NYT's attempt to put the top three stories in each section in a clear place for me to see it. Now - not so clear. The WaPo page seems cluttered, and hard to follow.

What I'd really like is a way to see the pages as they exist in the printed newspaper.

Posted by: baltar at April 3, 2006 01:53 PM | PERMALINK

Grandpa!

Posted by: binky at April 3, 2006 02:31 PM | PERMALINK
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