As the flyertalk home page features a large scrolling photo banner at the upper left, I am reminded of just how distracting it can be to log in from that very page. There is no way I’m not going to enter my password wrong at the first try.
Here are two articles on the topic of news crawl competing for your attention that may be of help in illustrating the situation.
Why Crawl When You Can Stand Still?
News crawl, born from a national tragedy, never went away
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