The financial web site 24/7 Wall Street has graded the web sites of the country’s biggest newspapers. The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle get well-deserved As. Cleveland.com, the Plain Dealer’s site, earns a C-, which seems about right. Granted, it’s harder to hell to navigate, and sometimes when you’re clicking around you accidentally stumble on an old Sam Fulwood story, which can really ruin up your day. But we went to public school, where they only give out Ds if you stab the teacher, so C- seems fair enough.
Here’s 24/7 Wall Street’s take: …
This article appears in May 28 – Jun 3, 2008.
I sent them feedback years ago about dead or wrong links along with poor programming standards (I work in software) and the reply was something along the lines of a canned response riddled with ‘you don’t know jack’
needless to say, if there isn’t an RSS feed for the area of the site, I don’t read it.
Whoever gave Cleveland.com a “C-” must be on the pipe. Cleveland.com deserves an “F” followed by an infinity of minuses. It looks like an in-utero close-up of a late-term abortion in progress, and it’s the most user-unfriendly hogpen in all of cyberdom.