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Tabloid Excesses of Cable News Websites #
January 31st, 2008 | In Worth Reading
Jack Shafer says what most visitors to the sites have known for a while:
In their craven pursuit of clicks, the editors at CNN.com, MSNBC.com, and Foxnews.com turn their sites into virtual tabloids by peppering their home pages with the most sordid and bizarre stories that can be culled from the world’s news wires.