This MSNBC story displays all the worst sins of Flash in news sites: useless animation for the sake of animation, long load times even on a high-speed connection, and crashing on a Macintosh. Then there’s their use of the word “interactive” as a noun to denote an interactive news story.
Couldn’t this story have been told better (and less expensively) using HTML?
Just another effort from big media to make the web more like TV…not exactly the right idea!