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WHAT'S UP WITH
THE SF SUN-SENTINEL? (2#) -

The paper artifact is undergoing a makeover. The new version is supposedly scheduled to debut on Sunday, Aug 17th. Charles Apple, a visual editor or graphic designer, believes he's gotten a smuggled dummy or prototype, but it doesn't look very credible to me. I suspect the Editor threw that dummy off his sled like a piece of raw meat to keep the wolves off his back. The snapshots are dim and fuzzy, but it looks like the sample makes use of a lot more negative space than I believe the management would allow these days.

The website is being remade, too. The "Front Page" screen remains stuffed with clutter. If you click over to the Broward section as your base, then pick out one of the stories listed, you will be taken to a screen which has the upper half loading an immense television screen on your computer; you'll have to scroll about halfway down the screen to see any text.

In other words, it looks like they are trying to supplant their newspaper website with some version of Internet TV.

Keep in mind that one of the reasons for Al Jazeera's popularity is that much of the population across the Middle East is illiterate. The Sun-Sentinel's website may gain some popularity on that basis, too.

Personally, I don't like TV mixed into my newspaper, but I'm no barometer of the general population currently residing in Broward County FL.

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