Am I the only one annoyed lately with the amount of news stories on CNN, MSNBC and other sites that are presented in streaming video format? Some days, it seems like half the links lead to video, not text.

If I wanted video, I'd watch the TV news. At any given moment, I have 5 minutes to get a quick view of what's going on in the world. I don't want to spend 4 of them waiting for streaming video to buffer in and then listening to Barbie and Ken at the news desk making chit-chat as a prelude to the story.

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