Two pieces on my Yahoo! news service. First one: "Best Hairstyles to Fit Your Face." Second, and underneath it: "Air France Jet Carrying 228 Feared Lost."
There is obviously something very very wrong with the way the internet presents news, and the example above is probably one of the worst. Some newspapers are trying to present a layout like a newspaper, with larger type and bigger presentation to the important instead of the trivial (yes, unless you are a mid-1960s Beatle your hairstyle is trivial).
Believe it or not, there is still power in a headline. When I went to the Newseam in DC they featured the headlines of leading papers after 9/11. When Obama won the presidency, newspapers sold out, because the everyone knew the headlines were history.
By the way, the New York Times.1) AMERICA ATTACKED. 2) OBAMA
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