That’s part of the Visual Website Optimizer code snippet. I think they are using it to “hide” the variation when doing a/b testing. This code is in use across the site (including on the template for the blog). I don’t think this is the cause of why news is blank but blog is not (given that they are using exactly the same template).
I can’t turn that off as we are in the midst of an A/B test right now, and I don’t know what might be screwed up if I turned the code off.
Jim
