Comment by jackschultz

Someone pointed out below, but in a comment way down in the thread, but CNN is actually who's behind this:

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/906821174805630976

I'm not sure if the reason behind this is because of possible weak phone connections or that the hurricane is a good way to promote the text only site, but either way, huge shoutout to CNN for going forward with this themselves.

I've thought for a while about scraping news sites to just show their text, or something like classifying articles based on their subjects from different ones. On this front, they did it first.