Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Those sophisticated, serious Europeans...

I've occasionally seen, on AOL, Yahoo, or CNN, that "most popular stories" list on the side of the page. This ranks the current news articles in order of the customers' actual selection.

I'm always saddened by the fact that Brittany Hilton or Bambi's disappearance on Tahiti are the sort of stories that predominate.

Fortunately those sophisticated, wise Europeans have a more serious outlook. Today's top 5 from Bild:

Rankings
Top 5 stories
01
Oscars battle of the dresses: Angelina Jolie vs. Jennifer Aniston is black and white!
Oscars dress battle
Angelina Jolie vs. Jennifer Aniston again!

02
Paul Gascoigne's hell
Gazza tells all about drink and drug addictions

03
Jade Goody's perfect wedding to Jack Tweed: Terminally ill star says
"I'm ready to go to heaven"

04
Stock market freefall
Wall Street fall sees DAX and Dow Jones suffer

05
Rihanna ready to forgive Chris Brown: Attacked popstar ready to take boyfriend back

I'm afraid to look at Le Monde's list...

2 comments:

Miss Carnivorous said...

Good Gawd! Really???

Anonymous said...

Please be fair. Bild is intended for people with an I.Q SLIGHTLY smaller than their (British) shoe size.

To take that as an example of German news papers is like saying the "Mirror" is a "intelectual tome worthy of the pen of Dickens or John Stuart Mill.

Von Brandenburg-Preußen