When perusing the news online, would you rather read an article or watch a video?

I like to read all the time.

Article. I hate having to watch commercials (thank GOD for DVR’s)

Depends on the subject.

Articles are nice because you can skim paragraphs. It’s more difficult to skip between “paragraphs” in a video.

On the other hand, lots of writing bothers me, I have a tendency to get lost in all of the lines.

So if it’s something I just want the most basic of details about? Article.
If it’s something I’d like to know a lot about? Video.

Definitely, read it. that way I can get the information at my own speed. And lack of speed is the reason I most times can’t stream a video on here.

Read, usually. I almost always get annoyed when I click on something and it turns out to be a video. Plus sometimes if I’m in a computer lab at school or in public i don’t want to blast a video about a body that was just discovered in a ditch, or whatever.

Depending on the story. If it’s an action and has video of it happening (i.e. “School bus nearly collides with candy factory, children disappointed”) then obviously the video.

I enjoy articles more, generally.

Article.

How does one “peruse” a video?

Video. I try to avoid reading when I don’t have to.

@Grisaille LOL! Dang, missed the candy factory! Bummer.
@pdworkin I said, “Perusing the news”—Oh wow! Learned something new! I looked it up. I always thought perusing meant to casually look through, kind of meandering. It means just the opposite! It means to read carefully, in detail. Well, thank you for that, PD!

It depends on the news. If it’s a speech someone made, for example, then I need to see the speech to make my own assessment.

@Val123 @pdworkin Peruse is an auto-antonym. It means “skim over” or “examine closely” unfortunatey.

@Sarcasm “Skimming over,” and “looking at closely” are opposites so it can’t be both. From Dictionary.com

“pe⋅ruse
  /pəˈruz/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [puh-rooz] Show IPA
Use peruse in a Sentence
See web results for peruse
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–verb (used with object), -rused, -rus⋅ing.
1. to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
2. to read.
3. to survey or examine in detail.”

Yeah, goddammit!

@pdworkin LOL! Adamant about our definitions, are we?! BUT, you can, therefore, peruse a video. You can watch it very carefully, and rewind to make sure you didn’t miss anything, and THAT is how one can peruse a video!

I know where you live.

I’ve heard that where I live doesn’t exist. I think they’re wrong!

Read – I seldom click on video links unless it is something that I have searched for on youtube etc.

I can read an article in seconds while videos takes several minutes by the time you have loaded it and gone past the inevitable commercials etc.

I’d rather read the article, unless the video contains photos or filmed evidence that isn’t otherwise in the written article.

I prefer to read. The videos are always ½ commercial, and they skip and jump on my computer, because I have a built-in glitch that only connects to the wireless intermittently.