Ads on CNN

I was just on the CNN.COM website, and more than half the articles are videos. And I'm on FireFox , not Internet Explorer, which is annoying because the video news articles will not play on fire fox.

Oddly enough , however, the movie advertisements have no problem at all playing on fire fox. In fact, you can actually go to an archive of advertisements and they all play just fine. So does that annoying mac vs pc ad they have all over the place. In high definition and full color !

so what is the message we take away from all of this ? If you want to watch the news you MUST bow down to bill gates and the mighty Internet Explorer , but we'll advertise to any old person or browser ?

I smell a rat.

Microsoft is giving them money somewhere along the line to do this , arn't they ?