Modern news websites tend to dilute meaningful content with large worthless images. Infinite scrolling, random contents and image stuffing are prominent trends in the modern web design.
bing.com can exemplify many websites where images take most of the space but add no informational value and can be disturbing:
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The same contents cleared of all images:
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Basically faces and generic images dilute and pollute the headlines.
cnn.com is a less extreme example, it has no infinite scrolling but displays even bigger images:
