The article I analyzed was actually an online-only blog on the New York Times website. The blog talked about how the sea temperatures are the highest they've ever been since they started recording such numbers in 1880.
I thought the article was ineffective for a couple of reasons. First, I thought there were too many links to other sources of information and not enough interpretation by the writer. If we're reading the newspaper to find out more about what's going on, then I believe that there should have been more information in the article and not in other sources that we are forced to investigate ourselves. The excessive mount of links was probably due to the blog status of the article, but I don't think that should have anything to do with placing more relevant information in the blog itself.
One other interesting feature of the online article was a video that was placed at the top of the screen. It was an overview of the earth's oceans and the various temperatures of each one. The video had no sound and no explanation of what we were looking at and what we should particularly take note of. The video, like the article, was also ineffective and I came away not knowing much about the subject of the article.
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