I suppose this is what they call a blog. Except that blogs
are supposed to be updated more often than this is.
The conclusion of an excellent
rant
about the appearance of IntelliTXT advertising links in online news articles:
The in-text ad links have a slightly different appearance
than the legitimate news-content link supplied by the columnist herself.
The advertising links are underlined in green text.
The news link is not underlined and it's in blue text.
This is what the distinction between news content and advertising
has come down to: the difference between blue and green.
I suppose this is what they mean by "yellow journalism."
I recently read the excellent Judgment
under uncertainty edited by Kahneman, Tversky and
Slovic. I was particularly struck by a simple observation that's
mentioned in a couple of the chapters.
Suppose you're a parent or manager or teacher. When one of
your charges does something particularly good, you're likely
to respond positively (praise, reward, promotion, ...). When
they do something particularly bad, you're likely to respond
negatively.
Now, suppose that your positive and negative responses are
equally effective (or ineffective) in producing improved performance.
Because of
regression
to the mean,
they'll tend to do worse after a really good performance and
better after a really bad one. Therefore, they'll tend to do
worse after you respond positively and better after you
respond negatively.
Therefore, we are all repeatedly exposed to misleading
evidence that tends to make us think that negative responses
are more effective than they are, and positive responses
less effective.
(The Wikipedia article on regression to the mean
quotes Kahneman making the same point. He calls the
moment when he noticed it "the most satisfying Eureka
experience of my career".)