PhilDernerJr
2006-11-24, 10:29 AM
It seems as though CNN has changed their website to aim for visitors from other countries with a lot more international news.
It's great and all, but it gets annoying when they put foreign sports headlines that I know nothing about in with the normal news headlines. Sorry for not being more of a car buff, but the headline " McLaren name Hamilton with Alonso" told me nothing about what the news was, and I had to read almost the whole article to realize that McLaren is a car company and they chose two guys Hamilton and Alonso to race for them as drivers.
I thought they were talking about strange winter/summer weather patterns in the headline " England in sweat as Aussies shine". Turns out they are talking about Cricket or something. I only figured this out because there happened to be a photo, otherwise, nothing in the article told me they were talking about cricket. I kinda wanna play it, but nevertheless!
I just think a little more background in articles for us uncultured Americans would be fair when you take away one of our few decent news sources online.
It's great and all, but it gets annoying when they put foreign sports headlines that I know nothing about in with the normal news headlines. Sorry for not being more of a car buff, but the headline " McLaren name Hamilton with Alonso" told me nothing about what the news was, and I had to read almost the whole article to realize that McLaren is a car company and they chose two guys Hamilton and Alonso to race for them as drivers.
I thought they were talking about strange winter/summer weather patterns in the headline " England in sweat as Aussies shine". Turns out they are talking about Cricket or something. I only figured this out because there happened to be a photo, otherwise, nothing in the article told me they were talking about cricket. I kinda wanna play it, but nevertheless!
I just think a little more background in articles for us uncultured Americans would be fair when you take away one of our few decent news sources online.