Monday, September 22, 2008

The New York Times 9/22/08




2. The story "Stocks drop on lingering fears about Wall St. Rescue" is at the top of the page with the largest font. The story is about lingering anxiety about the largest government bailout in history. The next story is entitled "Crude Oil Prices Up More Than 16$". It is featured right below the first story with a slightly smaller font. The story is about the spiking of oil prices. The third story is called " Bush Urges Democrats to Act Quickly on Bailout". It is featured to the right of the first story with a significantly smaller font. It is about the President urging Democrats to act quickly on the bailout.

3. The page does feature a most popular segment, it is at the top of the page with the other tabs. The most popular tab consists of most e-mailed, most blogged, most searched, and the most popular video. The stories differ from the ones on the home page because they are enduring popular stories such as coverage on Sarah Palin or the price of gasoline. The stories on the home page are the more up to date stories, as they post new ones very frequently. Here it is.

4. They do incorporate blogs. They incorporate specialists on any given topic, and editorial columnists as well. They have a very large variety of blogs to choose from, with topics ranging from Baseball to the Arts to Energy. The Blog Index Arts Blog Bats

5. They incoporate comments over to the right side of the home page. Users are allowed to comment on opinion posts. These are op-ed pieces that range over a wide variety of topics with readers able to comment on them. Registration is required in order to comment.

6. The site incoporates multimedia to some extent, they have a video section. The videos are divided into channels ranging over certain topics. The videos show up in a player provided on the site, in a youtube-style format. Here are the videos



-Matthew Scherer, Robert Uribe, Robert Stephens, Daniel Schorlemmer

2 comments:

Bobby said...
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Bobby said...

Nice job on the site review. I usually get my “news” from the Drudge Report, so I’m conditioned to seeing quick “one-liner” style hyperlinks. By comparison, there is a lot more information upon first glance...yet the tabs at the top of the page allow for a more streamlined layout (which is appreciated). I'll visit this site again...it has a wide variety of news information and has yet to crash my browser.