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I miss 1010wins.com

Yes, I'm a news junkie. And until recently I got my fix from 1010wins.com. It was the perfect news website — everything at a glance. Local news, national, world, sports, science, entertainment all gathered together on one page of headlines. Scanning it took under a minute. If something caught my eye I clicked and got the info I needed to know.

So naturally they had to "improve" it. WINS is one of the 2 news radio stations in New York (WCBS being the other). CBS owns them both, although their operations appear to be separate. Of they were. Now 1010wins.com redirects to CBSlocal.com, a generic page for Channel 2 news, WINS, WCBS, and WFAN.

Blech.

What used to be a convenient (and fast loading) set of informative links is now a multimedia hodge-podge of flash gimmickery obscuring what little information might still be there. All sizzle and no steak.

The unique identity and quirky personalities of 1010 WINS are gone. The brand is now CBS and it's about as enticing as store-brand beer. Maybe it's less filling but it sure doesn't taste great.

I hate it. So I headed on over to Google News and, WTF!, somebody screwed that up too! What is this "redesign stuff that's great" month on the internet? Where did the columns go? I gotta fill out a survey before I can read the news? No thanks!

It's gotta be a plot. The newspaper guys have obviously infiltrated the web news sites and turned them into unusable muddled "media portals" so we'll give up and go back to reading their dead tree editions.

I want my 1010wins.com back.

Posted at 13:12 by Chris Wysocki   [/media]   Comments | Archived | Perm Link |
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