So I went onto newyorktimes.com on Saturday to see how the Vice Presidential debate was being presented. I went to the picture and caption on the main page, entitled “Palin and Biden Go Head to Head.” Sounds promising, right? Well, it turns out that clicking on either the photograph of the caption would lead me not to an article, but to a slideshow with photographs and captions. I thought “okay…this could work…” But instead of highlighting the important issues discussed in the debate, or even discussing the VP candidates and their differing body language and verbal tactics, most of the 11 slides were not about the debate at all. Sure, the first slide covers the who and where of the debate, and slide number 5 captures the moment when the candidates first meet (commenting on Palin’s question “Can I call you Joe?”), but it’s pretty downhill from here. The following slides include VP Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robot Gaming at Washington University, and plenty of “who’s watching the debate” slides, be it students on campus or Republican voters in Utah. Check it out: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/10/03/us/politics/10022008LATEDEBATE_index.html
This is the first thing I can find about the debate on the NEW YORK TIMES?? I get that someone who might not want to watch the debate would want to get the sound byte version from the news, but I found this slideshow to be less than informative. Yes, there was an article that I did eventually find about the debate on the website that contained more substance, but what busy American citizen is going to spend ten minutes snooping around a news website for their news. Bad NYT…Bad Paper!
Anyone find a succinct, interesting, and relatively “unbiased” account of the debate? I’d love to hear your input…
1 comment:
I think that probably the printed version of the Times had slightly different coverage of the debate. The Internet's standards for coverage are held at different levels.
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