No need to dial up the Drudge Report, pick up a copy of the National Enquirer at the grocery store checkout line or watch the top stories on the 11 p.m. newscast of an if-it-bleeds-it-leads TV market. You get all that and much, much less at AOL.com. At 9:30 p.m. PT on April Fools’ Day, for example, the joke apparently was on the readers of AOL.com. The part of the page where your eyes usually focus first had a picture of President Obama meeting Queen Elizabeth with the headline, “Obama Gives Queen a Gift: Do You Think She’ll Really Use It?”
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Battle for News Eyeballs: AOL Scrapes the Bottom of the Barrel
Posted by: Renay San Miguel April 3, 2009 08:30 AMNo need to dial up the Drudge Report, pick up a copy of the National Enquirer at the grocery store checkout line or watch the top stories on the 11 p.m. newscast of an if-it-bleeds-it-leads TV market. You get all that and much, much less at AOL.com. At 9:30 p.m. PT on April Fools’ Day, for example, the joke apparently was on the readers of AOL.com. The part of the page where your eyes usually focus first had a picture of President Obama meeting Queen Elizabeth with the headline, “Obama Gives Queen a Gift: Do You Think She’ll Really Use It?”