Debka.com is an independent pubication mainly geared towards stories relevent to Judaism, Israel and news related to terrorist acts.
It provides original content ncluding text and video and hosts a large archive of past articles.
However, it's archive is difficult to access because the site has no search function. It's writing style is simple and contains a strong pro-Isaeli and pro-American bias that skews much of the coverage. There is very little rich content to draw the readers' attention down the page and what there is is largely unappealing. Also, it makes poor use of links, with it's 'Headlines' column being simply a list of recent stories, taking up the best position with actual links further down the page.
It differs from most print columns with the inclusion of videos but also through poor writing style, such as excessively long paragraphs not idealy suited to online reporting.
When taken into account, these factors make Debka.com a poorly written, unedited partisan site with little appeal other than an alternative to more politically moderate media sources.
Monday, December 10, 2007
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