Fark.com

To further look into sites that supply news, I went to fark.com, and oddly named site.

1. When you compare fark.com to the previous sites, cnn and msnbc, the first difference you can see is in the fact that this site isn't about posting it's own news, it's to direct you to other sites through links. It is also heavily interactive as opposed to the other sites who had just the bare-minimum. Everything on this site seems to rely on the interaction among the audience.

2. The use of content is split by tabs. Here people post stories categorized by the type they are, such as amusing, cool, scary, and so forth. It also is not focused on news, but stories sites have posted as news that should not have been.

3. There is no real writing style. Just summaries that direct you to crazy stories that are not news that people are trying to pass as news on ACTUAL news companies.

4. The site uses images a lot, but only as stories. For the most part the site is just a plain posting place, a bullentin board. The only photos are the logo for the site and ads. There are also pics for the logos of news companies when a story from them is linked here. Photos are also content at times.

5. Impartiality? Everything has an emotion tag to it, so if that is something without opinion you must be lying. Also, just coming in with the bias that all these stories are things the mass media is passing to an audience since there isn't any REAL news there is no room for impartiality even if the general public would find it to be a waste of news.

6. What Fark.com has done is build a good community of people around it. You can submit stories. There's a forum, a place to give feedback and an RSS feed. So yeah, they have made a strong effort in building a community.