Tangential to the conversation, but the website (Timeline) is new to me, and it is quite interesting. Does it seem to anyone else that the design is completely

Tangential to the conversation, but the website (Timeline) is new to me, and it is quite interesting. Does it seem to anyone else that the design is completely backwards? After reading a news article, I'd wanna learn about what has been happening recently with the issue, and dig a little deeper slowly. This forces a model where some small bit of news is followed by a wikipedia entry of sorts.