CNN is a fairly reputable news organization, and a pretty good example of how broadcast can have a strong digital presence. They're going to be mimicked by other news organizations without a doubt.

Compare them to a local TV station's site, and what you'll see there is basically video clips dumped onto articles or section fronts. CNN takes the trouble to write news copy alongside script (or are at least pretty good at rewriting) because you can't just repurpose TV script for a news article.

And in other news, http://www.cnn.com/cnn_adspaces/

I ended up with 67 Requests and 2.8M. uBlock Origin > Flash disabled > Going through a Squid transparent proxy with SquidGuard lists from shallalist.de (adv,anonvpn,remotecontrol,spyware,tracker)

If you'd finished the article, you'd probably notice he says (twice) exactly why he used CNN. Not that they're one of the worst, but rather that this is pervasive.

> Again, I don’t mean to call out CNN as the “bad example,” but rather use them to show a specific example of a model that has become pervasive for content on the web.

Some parts of the web are worse than others. He must hang out at Telerik a lot.

That's strange. I get much different figures. https://veuwer.com/i/2uys.png

Perhaps they're working on it?

With JS enabled TFA killed my (old) Android browser. Twice.

Disabling JS I managed to read it.