Presentation is everything.

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I enjoy receiving the news from different perspectives online. Usually I read The Huffington Post, CNN, FOX News, NPR, and occasionally BBC. Sometimes when I read through these selected interpretations some of the stories are strikingly similar, theses are mostly headline stories. However, each news station isn't entirely able to broadcast everything that occurs in the world on that day. This is why I like to take the time and read through each selection, because Huffington Post may not have the information that I currently seek on new music releases that NPR will most likely post.

All in all I'm unable to select a news forum that is my favorite. It all depends on the news I seek. For political information I will definitely turn to CNN and FOX. I do this because of CNN's slogan "The most trusted name in news" but just like saving a file I like to have backup, so I check FOX. Both of these resources are popular in the public eye, and some favor one over the other, but the more information I obtain on a topic the more genuine my opinion can be.

The website set up of these two broadcasters is very similar, and also easy to navigate through. The headline story is placed at the top of the page with a large image visually describing the story, and large bold type usually lies within the general vicinity of the image indicating what has occurred. The viewer may also navigate through both sites via tabs across the top of the page displaying areas of interest.

As one scrolls past the headline news a quick display of other recent developments in the world emerges, sometimes in text sometimes in images. One of my favorite things about both sites is that they display little subsections of world news, politics, business, health, entertainment, etc. This is what makes these sites so appealing to me their ability to present basically everything that you need to quickly know about the world today, and presentation is everything. I believe knowing what occurs in the world you live in is important, and with resources like FOX and CNN giving readers the option online to quickly acquire the information they seek makes this knowledge more accessible.