Is it Yahoo! or MSN? Can you tell the difference anymore?

Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2010-01-09 04:49

As of 11:45 PM EST, writing from upstate New York, the main page of Yahoo! looks like this.

I am not sure but I will guess that the Yahoo! main page is probably in the top 5 URLs people set as their web browser's start page. So one would think (hope) the people at Yahoo! (like MSN) would be willing to serve up a bit more substantive vittles for the hapless end user.

Instead, we get strange obsessions like Kate Gosselin's expensive new hair extensions and "Requests men shouldn't make" (note the red circle around the tab in my off-linked piece of ad-hoc art mentioned above).

I had no idea who Kate Gosselin was. I had to Google her name to find out and then I had to ask myself why anyone would care about the narcissistic carryings-on of her and her husband.

Anyway, I am sorry to say I must declare after multiple such examples that yet another large web portal has gone the way of MSN. Why these sources seem to think they need to feed some kind of ill-defined lowest-common-denominator dreck at us made of utterly useless information, with a healthy added dose of misandry at nearly every turn, is beyond me. But apparently, a certain class of person is pulling the content-management strings behind the scenes at these places. Not much new to report then, is there?

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I was going to post basically the same thing. But you beat me to it. There are some positive signs though. Many of the comments on Kate Gosselin's $7,000 haircut take her to task for complaining about not having enough in child support to feed and cloth her kids, and then wasting thousands of dollars. Also users rated the article: "Requests men shouldn't make" with 1 1/2 stars out of five. That's the lowest rating I've seen for a piece on yahoo's front page, although I admittedly haven't read many.

Maybe some of our messages are slowly starting to make their way into the cultural consciousness.

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Submitted by insdel2005 on Sat, 2010-01-09 16:26

What has been referred to here is mass brainwashing. By making fun of the male in society it allows women to make more fun of men in public. Men in general that watch that sort of stuff all day suffer from a lack of self esteem. It also empowers weaker women that abuse the system also helping to suppress the male. It is useful when manipulating people for them to have low self esteem. Matt, you might be on to something there!

David A. DeLong

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Submitted by David A. DeLong on Sat, 2010-01-09 16:43

they are obviously trying to compete with the TV stations for this level of viewers, but I doubt that they (msn etc.) will win. Nothing appeals to a moron quite so much as the real-time spectacle of a weather man making his predictions whilst doing some kind of idiotic rap dance.

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Sat, 2010-01-09 18:18

"Will you marry me?"

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Rise, Rebel, Resist.

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Submitted by MichaelClaymore on Sun, 2010-01-10 02:48