Gerry writes:

So if I download "forte" it will do something to get rid of all the
senseless crap I'm seeing here? I'm already using Firefox. I no longer
use aol as my internet gateway

Firefox is a browser. What you need to use is a dedicated news browser
program. I prefer a text-based news reader. I never have to use a
mouse. 95% of the time I press either "n" to skip the current article,
or "spacebar" to read it. "k" kills that subject. if I want to skip
more than one.