Time Warner, AOL, and Online News
April 4, 2009
I don’t think too much about Time Warner, AOL, and news. Renay San Miguel’s “Battle for News Eyeballs: AOL Scrapes the Bottom of the Barrel” here caught my attention. I use www.aol.fr for certain types of queries. I am accustomed to this type of splash page:
Mr. San Miguel’s article suggested to me that AOL has become a tabloid news service. Interesting idea. He wrote:
It should be as clear as a paparazzi’s lens that AOL really wants your eyeballs, and tosses together a heady mix of grabby headlines (“New Conficker Virus Strikes” — uh, actually, no), links to its celebrity-trolling corporate siblings like TMZ and Pop Eater, and an overall sense of desperation in order to capture them. It’s been going on for a while now, as parent company Time Warner made it clear early last year that it wants to make its stand against Yahoo, MSNBC/MSN and Google in the War of the Portals.
i suggest you read this article. Because I don’t pay much attention to real journalism, I was surprised at this view. The word “desperation” may be an apt one when talking about traditional media and the digital Gutenberg.
Stephen Arnold, April 4, 2009
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