Huffington vs. Drudge

My first thought when I read the Drudge page was that I was kind of bored. Nothing on there really excited me. It was the same font and with little pictures. Yes, some of the title were catchy and made me want to click on them to see what the story actually was but it was nothing super special. The Huffington repot on the other hand was immediate interest. The very first big bold title with the explosive picture was enough to wrap me in. In times today, you can’t go wrong with bringing up topics on the war. For how much I am against it, I still get interested in what is going on over there. The Huffington knows exactly what readers want. It has big bold catchy titles. The stories are a mix of news and a splash of celebrity gossip. I mean honestly how interested are people on whether or not someone didn’t wear underwear on a talk show. It seems silly to be news worthy, but sadly this is what the people want to read about. It seems as though the Drudge report also knows how to show case their news and get their stories out, but just in a different blander way. It’s not a bad thing how they represent each other and the news stories, it just seems like they aim towards a different demographic. I don’t know if my thinking is correct or even close to what the online articles are, but it seems like Drudge knows what it’s talking about and has hard hitting news, they just go about showing it on their page differently than Huffington does. Huffington also has well sources articles but I still get the vibe that it focuses more on how much they can get their readers to click on each story. That may be why some have such catching title like the one where gossip girl wears no underwear when really it’s just a ploy to have you click on the story and it really is nothing special. There is a huge thing that I like about Huffington is that a lot of their stories are videos. I like reading about the news, but being able to watch interviews and news stories online makes me feel like I am right there in the action.