Beating readers off with a stick


iconFox News finally responded to my email about their recent web redesign. Although my email was entitled "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" they apparently think I was offering them praise.

Thanks for writing. We want to let you know that we care about our readers and always try to listen to what you have to say.

We have read each and every email regarding our recent site redesign. We have listened to your suggestions and feedback, and have made some modifications to our recent redesign addressing your specific concerns. We have lightened the color scheme, added many more headlines throughout the home page, and made some alterations that should make finding stories and videos easier.

We were heartened to hear that the new site navigation made it easier for users to traverse Foxnews.com and find sections previously undiscovered by many of our readers. We believe this new navigation menu allows you to get faster access to more content than ever before.

Please keep the feedback coming and thank you again.

FOXNews.com

As far as I'm concerned they're done. Most of their offerings were AP and Reuters stories any way. My main reason for still going there was that I liked their layout. Now that they've scrapped that, and apparently have no intention of fixing it, I'm not going back.


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I am the same way. I only like to get skewed news if it looks pretty.

Posted by: tbone at June 17, 2004 12:16 PM

I got exactly the same response just now.
"Thanks for writing. We want to let you know that we care about our readers and always try to listen to what you have to say. ..."

To their credit the page did get a lot faster by the end of that day, and using the pulldowns to get to the stories isn't THAT big a deal. Today the site is loading quickly, so, fine. But I liked the old site better.

I'll still visit, because I feel they're less skewed than the others, and cnsnews.com is too addicted to fatfonts to allow many stories to show on one screen. CNN still has the most useful layout.

Posted by: Drew at June 17, 2004 12:35 PM

Yeah, CNN's site is the best.

Posted by: Mays at June 17, 2004 2:02 PM

So you frequented Fox News in the first place? I tell you this now, Fox News is 100% fucked up. They are the reigning king of distorted media. Rupert Murdoch, Brit Hume, Bill O'Reilly, and Hannity and Colmes. Case closed.

Posted by: Tobias at June 17, 2004 4:44 PM

Well To Biased, living up to your name I see.

"Beating readers off with a stick" Does that make them walk gingerly?

Posted by: tom scott at June 19, 2004 3:24 AM

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