Today, Alexis Ohanian and I released a new project: WTF CNN. We created the site to make it easy to compare CNN’s US front page with news sources from other countries. If you like what you see, pass it on, and check back the next time a big story emerges!
For the nerds: the site uses jQuery for the animations. It also uses a lot of modern CSS3 styling with Modernizr styles to ensure that things play nice in IE. This was my first time playing with Modernizr, and I’m super impressed by its simple approach to feature detection.
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Good job on this which I would thought of this myself.
One issue can you get rid of that pop up about the site, it seems
to show up everytime I visit (cookie).
Concerned about a false analogy that you are using here…CNN is essentially an American news site. I think it would be better if you were to compare it to NPR which is probably the last “true” news organization America has, (and their webpage is pretty damn good too).
http://www.npr.org/
Thanks Dave! Excellent suggestion. I’ll add NPR to the list.
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