Link farm front pages need to consider Google page design

I've got to agree with Steve Outing on this. News websites just haven't learnt enough from print or TV as regards what to do with their front pages. The headlines before a news programme, or the items on a broadsheet newspaper front page, will rarely stretch beyond 10 items (generic indexes excluded). Even with all the other furniture counted on a newspaper front page, you'll never be taken in more than about 20 different directions. Same goes for Google. Compare that to the Washington Post: 217 links on its front page. Does anyone really scroll down on front pages? I'm not against bundling stories in drop-down menus and leaving the very best editorial picks on the front. Show the quality -- everyone knows there's quantity online.
(From Editor & Publisher)