Introduction To The Internet

At this moment I am sitting at my computer with eight of the most popular and well-known news websites displayed, eight pages that serve millions of people knowledge about the world around them daily . Each page is displaying similar news articles but each seems to have its own opinion and a different way it delivers news to the people that visit it.

cnn.com
cnn displays the most multi-media on its front page. A variety of pictures, articles, and videos covering topics from the Chicago teachers strike, to where you can find mermaids. The most sad news is displayed in small text with no images, but the lighthearted entertaining news has larger text and is illustrated with bright images. Even if it is harder to find the more "important" news is still rather easy to find, but this website seems to focus on covering up the sad with the happy.

bbc.co.uk
bbc displays a lot of news from countries around the world. This page has a news that might be difficult to find on other pages displays front and center as important headlines. The colors are a lot more subdued than the majority of the pages I have viewed. This color palette, combined with how the news is displayed provides a simple, straightforward way to view the news. bbc seems to be a way to learn current affairs that are a little less mainstream easier than other web pages.

cbsnews.com
The most prominent color on this page is black which seems to go well with the darker nature of the news cbs provides. I find much more mentions of terrorists, arrests, and killing here than on the other websites. At first glance this page seems a lot more serious than the other news sources I have seen. 

reuters.com
reuters is primarily a business news source and the headlines definitely display this.Affairs involving the stock markets, both global and national, are shown much larger and more often than any of the other pages. Reuters seems to be the page to go to if you want to find out whats going on in business, and finance. 

buzzfeed.com
buzzeed may seem like an odd choice in news source, but I think there's great value in entertaining news. Buzzfeed has the widest variety in news topics. Most of the news stories, which are adorned with many different pictures, and graphics, are written to entertain while still usually teaching something. This website is mostly for fun news, and interesting things you might not learn anywhere else. 

foxnews.com
The first and most prominent thing you see when you go on fox news is politics, and lots of it. The affairs of the president and legislation are all over the top of the page. Red, white, and blue are also basically the only colors you see on this website. I imagine this is to show patriotism. If you're not looking for the top articles you may have a hard time. Everything under the first four or five breaking news articles are rather small and hard to read. Fox seems to be a good place if you want to read the most important news at the moment.  

news.google.com
Google news has the simplest interface but the most text. At first glance all of the information can be a bit annoying to read through. Lack of pictures does give the page a much more straightforward feel. In my opinion the best part of google news is that the articles are actually links to many of the other pages on this list. 

ABCNews.com
ABC seems to be a little bit obsessed with Obama, the majority of the top news articles are about him. There are plenty of other news stories displayed through ought the site but the bigger more prominent stories all relate to either the election, or Obama. ABC news definitely seems like the place to go for lots of news related to politics.  

-Victoria

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