CNN.com dumbing it down to the bottom...

Submitted by Carole Borges on Sun, 2007/06/03 - 6:26am.

I just saw that CNN.com now has a little box at the top of their articles called STORY HIGHLIGHTS.

It's kind of like a five sentence summary of the main points. Apparently CNN.com feels people might not want to have to (yawn) read the whole article or maybe can't read or think well enough to get the drift of the material on their own?

Just another way to dumb down the news. Some people probably think they actually understand the content without reading the whole article that way. Yeah, like understanding Shakespeare from reading Cliff Notes.

It's really revolting.

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It sounds like a great idea
Submitted by jah on Sun, 2007/06/03 - 2:28pm.

It sounds like a great idea to me.

I always get sick of having to sift through the rubbish to get to the meat of an article. I especially hate having to read the recap put in there for people who haven't followed the story to date.

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