You’ll have to be in international traveller who lugs around a laptop to appreciate what I’m going to tell you.
I’m in the States right now, but I regularly receive The Independent feed of headlines. Today, I noticed that there were various words in each of the stories that were printed in blue and double-underlined. Curious, I hovered my mouse over a couple of them. Surprise, surprise, the links had nothing whatever to do with the story. Not only were they ads for products, but the ads were germane to my current location. One was even for new windows. It seems that living outside of the UK is not enough to protect you from the dreaded double-glazing saleman.
I know times are tough, but in my mind the inclusion of such advertising seriously denigrates the value of the news it reports.
Is this the way of all journalistic flesh? I hope not.
Bruce Hoag, PhD, CPsychol
Work Psychologist
