The Fox News site is a well-designed site, very user-friendly, and intuitive structuring of news categories. Each category is presented along a bar on the top of the screen, followed with a subcategory bar right below that differs for every category. Headlines are presented in large print on the left side of the screen, enough to see, but not overcrowding the other articles and videos presented in the section. Each article also features a "recommended for you" header for related articles and videos along the same subject matter. The site's design is set up to provide a flow from one article to the next to hook readers for longer.
Each article is specifically keyed to a category, narrowing the scope of the article greatly. Headlines are usually on topic, with very few misleading or uninformative titles showing up in sections. Advertisements are tied to every article contextually, and the user is given the ability to share each article with their own social media network straight from the site. Articles are often posted in multiple categories at once, i.e. Egypt’s Internet crisis being covered in both the World, SciTech, Business, and Politics categories all at once. Many articles are gleaned from reliable sources such as the Associated Press, while others are written by FoxNews themselves.
FoxNews.com pulls from its own stable of writers and contributors to promote its own articles, but many of the lesser categories, such as Leisure, SciTech, and Health, are covered by works from other sources. The Associated Press ranks high in the contributors, with smaller articles coming from sites like Space.com, the New York Post, and NewsCorp Australia.
One of the current articles focuses on the recent healthcare debate and the constitutionality of the healthcare reforms in America. It dealt with the recent decision of a federal judge to render the new Obamacare law void and unconstitutional. The article's facts were presented well, and allowed for equal representation of each viewpoint in the debate, and quoted either side. All in all, the article presentation was effective, and at the very least, gave the image of balance.
Your analysis of the articles' format and sourcing is incredibly strong. I think you could have gone into your take on the featured article more. Being a critic of FOXNews, I was pleasantly surprised to see that they brought both viewpoints into the healthcare article and created a balanced image, as you say. I found the post easily readable, so, once again, elaborate on your opinion more.
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