Good, Bad, and Ugly

Ad placement?

Well done, informative article announcing the conclusion that Assange will be extradited, face charges for alleged sex crimes.

Sponsor of page = viagra. Disgusting.

D.P.

All the news that’s fit to print?

How come there is no longer a print button for articles on your Website? It makes it particularly difficult when a story runs two, three and four pages.

Mike

Thanks for asking. We briefly dropped that function to free up more space for social sharing tools, but you will be happy to hear we have restored it: GBU Editor

Contact Us?

Your ‘find a reuters office’ link does not work.

I would like to have the contacts of your office in either Baghdad or Amman.

Anthony P.

Are these real articles?

Have things gotten so bad in the news business that you will now publish press releases for UFO enthusiasts with the unaltered lurid headlines that their agents give you?

Watch your credibility as a news organization circle the drain. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish Reuters from The Onion.

David H.

“The ignorant words of morons…”

I am so sick and tired of Reuters’ public comments section. I expect to come to Reuters for expert world NEWS, not the ignorant words of morons with political axes to grind. What a complete waste.

Despite 20-something tech entrepreneurs thinking they know it all, participation isn’t a good thing for news; when it comes to world affairs, I expect to read the work of real professionals, not have those professionals drowned out by the uninformed opinions of the masses.

I won’t be visiting Reuters web site any more. It seems Thomson Retuers, despite its value proposition aiming for the opposite, has yet to realize information overload isn’t valuable at all.

You forget that social media is only valuable if the content is valuable, and 99.9% of public comments on your site are anything but.

Reader comments on new design…

I have to say I really do not like the new format.

The start page used to have broad coverage of the stories of the day from multiple areas (e.g., small business, green business, technology, etc…).  However, you have changed it so that only a select number of headlines now broach the front page and the other sections have to be navigated to through the links up top.

I really liked seeing more of the additional coverage without having to navigate away from the main page.  This really makes things harder to find and really irritating.  Please add back the additional sections to the main page for quicker viewing.