I hate the internet

[Woodwerker]

Am I the only one who is so tired of clicking a link for a news story hoping to read the story only to learn that it's a video? I don't want to watch videos of news stories, I want to read the story. In 5 years there will be no more text on the web, just video.
Rant over...

[radhak]

+1.
No video for me please. I go out of my way to avoid videos.
I am getting to be adept at avoiding links leading to videos.
I love news-sites that allow the option to 'read' even when there's video link available.

[LarryG]

+2.

A written story has a fighting chance of presenting me with an in-depth analysis. A video tends to be a dumbed-down synopsis that tells me little I didn't already know.

[sweensdv]

Van Halen might well have summed up the need for videos replacing the written word................"Have you seen Juniors grades?.................

[jackellis]

Generally speaking I would rather read an in-depth story than watch a sound bite video, but you have to remember that the Internet wasn't made for a bunch of Luddites. Gotta take the good (e-mail, BT3Central) with the bad.

On the other hand, I find the How To videos on sites like Fine Woodworking and the Wood Whisperer much more helpful than reading an article.

[LCHIEN]

I too hate the news videos, for making me watch those adverts before and then waiting for it to load, and never having any significant in-depth info, I could have read 4 text stories.

OTOH, there's a lot of text stories just begging for a simple picture (or a web link in the case of stories about web or internet stuff) and they never have one.

[crokett]

I've mostly stopped looking at CNN.com because most of their headline stories now are video only links. A story I can read gives me a lot more information than a 2 minute video does.

[pelligrini]

Not if it is the 2 paragraph associated press feed.

[Kristofor]

Text > Video for news any day of the week.

I can read MUCH faster than the reporter can speak, then add in the delays for watching the musical logo lead-in, the commercial, and often buffering time (even though my connection has 50x the bandwith of the clip in question) and it's just a waste of time.

[crokett]

Not if it is the 2 paragraph associated press feed.

True. But more often than not in the 2 paragraph feed there are links to other things and/or links are included with the story. Neither of these happens with a video link.

[radhak]

True. But more often than not in the 2 paragraph feed there are links to other things and/or links are included with the story. Neither of these happens with a video link.

and to add insult to injury, the video more likely than not has just those 2 paragraph press feed! so you end up going thru a video clip that you could have glossed over and tossed away in a 10th of the time!

[LinuxRandal]

Yet another issue, a lot of the videos, use proprietary formats. There isn't a current version of Flash for my main system, and I don't think flash was working on many 64 bit machines until recently. Not to mention I don't run Windows, so things like WMV and such are out.

Then we have the things like a local tv station that says visit our site to read the indepth story NOW, only to post it days later. (and bury it so it is a pita to find)

Just because people don't want it on paper, doesn't mean they don't want to read it!