When you're rightcorrect you're rightcorrect, ER. At the technical level and all those gratuitous videos and twatter feeds and running chatter from the comment queue (yeah, I need to send some snark Rebecca's way; what is she thinking?) And at the stratospheric level of the root cause: Capitalism in general, and in particular the choice to use the perverted system of advertising to fund Web sites. Advertising leads to page bloat and slow load times, because that's where the money is. You don't see the problem on non-ad-supported sites.

I'd also criticize the choice at a lot of news sites to post videos of talking heads, and especially auto-running videos, instead of just posting the words the meat puppet is speaking. Waste of bandwidth, and I read much faster than meat puppets speak. (OTOH, they're wrong half the time the other way, failing to insert pictures and maps and diagrams when they're really needed to augment the text. Given what we know about the geographical illiteracy of Americans, why are there so few maps in news articles to help the ignorant get oriented? But I digress...)

If you can think of another way to fund Web sites (and a lot of other things under the broad canopy of "media") some way other than ads, you'd be a hero to literally billions of people, and ensure your place in history to the end of time. There's no better example than advertising of how an obsession with markets and commerce can stunt the growth of a culture. Liberate us, ER! We're being strangled by ads!