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Was there any doubt that Barack Obama would be Time's Person of the Year? (Quick: Identify runner-up Zhang Yimou.)
Was there any doubt that Barack Obama's election would be the AP's top news story of the year? (The Russia-Georgia war came in at No. 10. Raise your hand if you remember that.)
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You guys doing a Top Ten based on page views on the site this year?
Those are always very popular...
There's also sports top tens and top photos (if you can track that -- some people don't put analytic codes on image pages (dumb)...
I am sure you guys do, though.
Posted on December 22, 2008 12:22 PM
Design dolts love numbered lists. They can show off their low-level counting skills and make the numerals 20 times as large as the rest of the type.
This makes them feel important. Then they can justify the bad decisions of 25 years ago to dumb down the newsrooms and the articles.
Posted on December 23, 2008 3:40 AM