Fed Up with Websites ??

Several of the major news web sites in Australia now overlay their start pages with a nearly full page ad that must be closed to view the main web site.  Sometimes there is no close button- the  "x" - it has to load and run, then go away itself.

This is advertising taken to the absolute max......and a monumental... turn off.  Would I buy that garbage that interferes with my reason for coming to the web page?  Not likely.  Would you buy?

Now the same start pages are full of superfluous garbage, narrow columns and every effort to cram more crap on the page......another tunoff.

Not sure what one can do........but at least boycott those advertisers using this type of approach.

Or go back to news accumulators such as Google!

Truth in Media

We all use the mass media- whether it be newspapers, online information or tv. But do we trust it to report fairly and accurately?

Some say that commercial sources are less trust worthy than public broadcasting. In Australia as well as some other countries such as the UK, Germany, Holland there is a strong public broadcast ethos, but less so in the USA, where National Public Radio [ NPR] is only a small player, but some say, a growing one.

A recent study, shown below shows that for the USA, we now have less trust in the mass media.

And this was before the recent scandalous stuff appearing about the various arms of the Murdoch media empire in the UK as well as in the USA.

Go figure........


Source:LiveScience