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If I had to guess, the North Jersey Record and the Press Enterprise, and perhaps the Columbus Dispatch were the newsites that are sort of “mainstream media” where many people go to get their news, and the Orange County Register was more like a small-town newsite. My favorite was the North Jersey Register…I guess for me the appeal of the newsite has to be the tone of the content – I wish all news articles were as sterile and unbiased as possible – as well as the aesthetics of the website itself. It shouldn’t be too cluttered or look too mundane as if the newpaper just mandated a website because it had to keep its readers.
I also am more inclined to get my news from the larger newsites because I tend to discuss things happening nationally and internationally more than locally, especially at the water cooler with co-workers. All of the news sites had many ads. I think it was the North Jersey Record that opened up with an ad and I had to get rid of it before entering the site. I believe the Columbus Dispatch had the most ads, and a lot of flash ads. Those are the ads that are most distracting; I just like to get into the website and find the news, and the ads just slow things down sometimes.
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