It's even worse now. I've noticed a trend of starting articles/blog posts with giant, irrelevant/unnecessary pictures and the actual content ends up below the fold. I want to read the article not look at a picture.
Maybe you should try Readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ . I do notice the trend as well, and I think I have my resolution set pretty high compared to the average user. I wonder what they think.