It is not easy to watch a video. You get a message with breaking news. Then you watch 2 ads, then you think you will see a story, but instead the ads start again. I typically give up and do not find the story that was “breaking news”. Also, the breaking news alert stories are often not actual breaking news stories.

We recently traveled out west and along the way ate at McDonald’s. We appreciated the news of the McDonald’s E. coli coverage and one of us was a victim of that disease. Thanks to your coverage we suspected what it was and a visit to the emergency room confirmed it was the exact strain of E. coli that was linked to McDonalds. Also, you had the article on the recalled carrots from California. The place we visited in California had those carrots at that time and of course did not know of the recall yet. Therefore, we were exposed to E. coli in two different places on one trip. The two recalls were involved with different strains of E. coli so there isn’t a question of where the disease came from. Thanks to the news coverage including the dates of the recalled carrots, the place that used that brand of carrots and currently had some in the fridge, has disposed of them.

80% of the stories you get are of fires, rapes, murders, and people in car crashes. If that’s your thing, then maybe you’d like this app which takes “if it bleeds it leads” to the next level. The local stories are horribly written by what appears to be middle school English students. Even the AP stories they pull in for filler are all of the things listed above, but just out of Florida or some other crazy state. As far as the app goes, it crashes every so often. But it’s not terrible. The content is just garbage. Like a tabloid at the grocery store check out line.

For an app that wants to give you news, it is truly horrific the amount of ads this thing serves up. Every time a story comes across your notifications, You have to watch a 30 second ad usually of nonsense before you can even read the story or look at the video. I’m talking about the really annoying ads that have a video of a game or something dumb that you can’t skip. And when yo do want to skip, You can hardly find where the X is to do it… This thing is so bloated. It could probably serve as a hot air balloon.