Liz Perez
Shelby Reilly
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- Our first top story is called "Congress Outraged by Demand for Speedy Bailout." The story was about how some members of Congress are upset that they were told by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to act fast on a $700 billion bailout for financial firms. Though the story itself was not very long it was not only listed under "Top Headlines" but the title of the story was preceded by bold red letters that said top story. The story was accompanied only by a photo of Henry Paulson speaking in Congress.
- Our second top story is called "McCain-Palin Camp Tried to Block Media Access to Palin in NY." The story is exactly about what the title says. Palin was meeting with an important foreign leader when their camp tried to block media access in order to avoid questions being asked to Palin. The story was also listed under "Top Headlings" and had a lot of comments from readers. However, the story was not accompanied by a picture, but was longer than the first story we chose.
- And our last top story is called "Bush Invites Obama to DC to Work on Bailout Bill; Obama Accepts." This story is about Pres. Bush inviting Obama to a meeting regarding the Wall Street bailout bill that is to take place tomorrow afternoon (Sen. John McCain will be attending as well). The story is listed under "Top Headlines" and is accompanied by a picture of Obama and Bush. The story itself is not long, probably about the same length as the first story we picked.
4) The Web site has a wide variety of journal-style blogs available and range anywhere from politics to "campus chatter." The bloggers are a mix of staff reporters and editorial columnists. The general blog area for this site is called "Blog Roundup," area has links to all the different blogs that are available for our viewing pleasure.
5) This site has links on every story (whether it is opinion, blog, or reporting) for readers to leave comments. However, there are no discussion boards since the reader comments serve as a discussion board in themselves.
6) Abcnews.com has a section called i-Caught that allows viewers and readers like us to post video or pictures of what we think is news. The home site, abcnews.com, also incorporates some video clips of news shown on the ABC news as well, you can watch news clips under "Watch Video."
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I've personally have never used abcnews.com for my own news resource, but after exploring the site, I find it to be pretty useful and organized. It's not complicated at all. Unlike some other sites, such as the New York Times, there is no clutter which makes things easier to find.
I've never really looked at the ABC news site before, but after reading the blog I decided to check it out and I found that it is a really good source for news. It's an easy site to use and I like that there is a lot of input from the viewers. The different blogs posted on the site are also very interesting.
Truthfully I do not use online news sources all that often but on checking out abcnews.com it does seem to be pretty interesting. Most of the articles were right out in the open and very easy to access. Along with the multitude of articles there were many interactive sections for viewers and tons of multimedia content for viewing purposes.
I like using abcnews.com because it has news divided into different sections; I find this helpful to do specific searches and find news I want to be informed about and follow. They also have tabs for their TV shows displaying information and updates on dates and events. Abcnews.com also contains a great variety of polls viewers can participate in and also present videos and pictures related to the news posted on the site.
Of all the websites I browsed, ABC news seems to be the cleanest, most organized and navigable, unlike some other news sites like the Dallas Morning News and Time News, which were very chaotic and cluttered. Generally I don’t use the internet for my source of news unless I’m looking for something particular and in that case I usually just Google it. But I would recommend ABC news to those who do get there information from and online source. Their site is very visually enticing with the scrolling photographs and news stories in the right hand corner and convenient access to news videos on the left side. ABC news also greatly encourages interaction from their views, which is always nice and interesting to read.
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