I don't want their paper then!
"Got a comment? Keep it to yourself" by Douglas Bailey | July 15, 2009
I’ve concluded there’s one outlet that should be abandoned: those comment forums at the end of articles on newspaper websites. I realize these forums have their advocates. Publishers apparently believe forums help drive people to their website and provide opportunity for interactive exchanges of ideas, comments, corrections, and expansion of debate and topics.
Yeah, it is called democracy!
Instead, these forums are insidiously contributing to the devaluation of journalism, blurring the truth, confusing the issues, and diminishing serious discourse beyond even talk radio’s worst examples.
That is coming from a lying, obfuscating, omitting, distorting, agenda-pushing, war-promoting s*** screed called the Boston Globe?
Sigh.
My problems with these forums can be boiled down to three peeves:
Who cares what you peeves are?
I feel sorry for today’s reporters and columnists, who work hard gathering information dutifully trying to raise the debate on issues or inform the public on a burning topic only to have some agenda-driven bonehead who doesn’t have the courage - or need - to identify himself or herself and isn’t bound by the same ethics or policies tear down the work product the moment it appears.
Well, if the PRODUCT wasn't a LYING SACK of S*** then THERE WOULD BE NO NEED! And I am ANONYMOUS so SOME ZIONIST CRETIN won't decide to come pay me a visit. Yeah, I am kinda tired of the insults.
Of course, I didn't lose $75 million last quarter. That tells you something right there. AmeriKa's jewsmedia sounds bitter that we have turned them off.
Have newspaper publishers and editors really thought through all the repercussions? Is it just a numbers game; that is, do they think the volume of comments equals support for good journalism? There’s the story of the reporter upset with his superiors for trimming several paragraphs from his article because of inadequate attribution, sourcing, or potential libel who simply logged on to his paper’s website under an assumed name and posted a rewritten version of the deleted material at the end of his own story, in the comments field.
GOOD for HIM!!!!!!
Apocryphal? Maybe. But how do we know it’s not happening all the time? If this reporter’s own editor deems the material problematic, why then give anyone free license to attach it to the story?
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We know that newspapers made a mistake and devalued their product by giving it away for free on the Internet.
No, it was the LIES!!!
Some rebuilding could begin by removing these reader forums and restoring journalism’s dignity.
Too late.
By the way, don’t bother posting any comments directed to me when this article appears on the Web. I won’t see them. Instead, go start your own website or blog or buy a legitimate newspaper, or write a letter to the editor, or an op-ed (and sign your own name to it). If you really have something interesting to say, I’ll find you.
ALREADY DID!
That's the difference between the paper and me. I'll TELL YOU the TRUTH and have something interesting to say at the same time. The paper fails on both counts.
