Việc phát sóng các kênh tin tức dường như để ưu tiên cho văn bản chồng khi hình ảnh của họ trong một thời trang video màn hình giống như. Tất cả các trang web này sử dụng một kết hợp của hình ảnh và văn bản truyền đạt tính nghiêm trọng của tình hình. Không ai trong số họ không cũng như một biểu ngữ một- | Figure Reprinted with permission of 1998 Figure 1999 Cable News Network. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission of CNN. - 112 - Figure The online site for The Post has given us newspaper-like headlines translated into HTML. The broadcast news channels seem to favor text superimposed upon their images in a video-screen-like fashion. All these sites use a mix of image and text to convey the gravity of the situation. None of them does it as well as a one-inch banner across the printed page. And our eye isn t able to follow the headline to its story our hand must do the work by clicking to it. Information Is What You Make of It The newspaper sites give us a bit more to read on the front page but you have to make the decision to read on by clicking. Once this decision is made there s plenty to read. Without making a value judgement it s pretty fair to say that finding information that we can read for factual detail on the Web is an exercise in clicking through of following threads links hierarchies whatever the Web architect has constructed to contain the information we seek. I can find every nauseating detail of our public servants sex lives on the Web if I spend enough time searching around. Or I can get a small daily dose in the paper or on the network news. Neither method has been shown to be more toxic than the other. On the other hand the Web allows us to look up the history of impeachment and the stories of Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon participate in forums on the subject and even read the Constitution see the sidebar Web Citizenship 101 and the entire transcript of the Starr Report and Congressional hearings online. Getting information from the daily paper is almost a passive activity by comparison to Web Citizenship 101 There are many places on the Web where you can find the complete text of the . Constitution. This particular page of plain-vanilla HTML no embellishments just HTML headings is maintained by the . House .
