[BC] "broken'" news

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In a message dated 12/29/2006 08:46:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
scott at lagrange-com.com writes:

> to me.  Newsrooms let graphics and crawls and bugs and split screen
>  boxes and microwave trucks and satellite trucks and video phones all
>  obscure the main message.  
>  

This same kind of garbage has been running rampant on most Broadcaster's 
WEBsites. Some radio sites are utterly obnoxious. Maybe they think that by 
overloading the site with animations and junk, they'll impress someone? Who knows? I 
know that such sites become a major hinderance to visually-impaired users... 
and since Radio is an audio medium, they rely heavily upon it. Our WEBsites 
should always have a "Non-Flash" version for their benefit. Also, you have the 
increasing use of the WWW by users of cell phones. Flash-based sites don't work 
too well, there.

Overall, I think the issue addressed here is, "If ya got it, flaunt it!" It 
goes for overdone TV Newscasts, *and* overdone WEBsites.

Willie...