After reviewing the six news websites, I have concluded that I prefer simplicity over the presence of multimedia. Sites such as The Seattle Times and CNN do a good job at remaining up to date with social technology, without cluttering their homepages with multimedia and photo headline links. In my opinion news sites that do not advertise as much on their homepages are able to get away with the presence of more photos and other visual media. The Arkansas Democrat was my least favorite news site due to the fact that they had lots of advertisement and visuals which made finding interesting news very confusing. In my opinion, if users want to view multimedia, they can click on a multimedia tab or small homepage link that takes them to a page where all the multimedia is located. The most important part of these sites is the news itself, thus in my opinion text headline links are just fine without a picture to go along. 

       The local news organizations I reviewed  were effective in providing useful information for those who reside or visit the cities which the paper caters to. It was nice to have weather and traffic information on these homepages, as well as simple drop down tabs that break down news by county and or specific areas of the city. I was also surprised to see that all of these sites have implemented RSS technology. The majority of the sites I reviewed offer a wide variety of RSS feeds. For someone who just learned what an RSS feed is a couple months ago, it was interesting to find that the majority of news sites are on top of keeping their technology current. The RSS feeds are a very useful way to gain information from these news organizations, that specifically pertains to your interest. This helps manage the wide variety of news available on the web.