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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2011-02-08 04:51 pm

Sometimes things get better

I'd like to thank the BBC for putting the word "VIDEO" at the start of the headlines for all of the stories on their site which are predominantly videos*.

It makes it significantly easier to avoid opening pages which I either can't watch at work, or have no real interest in looking at at home.**

*On the RSS feed, that is. They use a little play button image on the site itself.

**I don't enjoy watching a talking head take five times as long to explain something than it would take me to read it myself. I'm not four, I can read for myself. The only time I'm interested in video news is when the image/footage itself is part of the news - i.e. rarely.

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2011-02-08 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know how to pronounce the names of all sorts of people and places that have been in the news, since I haven't watched the news (or listened to radio news) in a good few years. I just read my news.
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[personal profile] zz 2011-02-08 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
at least you know where you are with "nick clegg".
*cough*