New York Times adds comments to news stories
The New York Times has started adding reader comments to selected news stories. While other sites like The Washington Post and USA Today already do this, The Times is doing so in a more measured fashion, only adding them to certain stories and moderating all of the comments before they are posted.
Public Editor Clark Hoyt writes:
The paper is creating a comment desk, starting with the hiring of four part-time staffers, to screen all reader submissions before posting them, an investment unheard of in today’s depressed newspaper business environment. The Times has always allowed reader comments on the many blogs it publishes, with those responses screened by the newsroom staff. That experience suggests what the paper is letting itself in for.
nytimes.com editor John Landman says The Times never considered unmoderated comments.
and Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president for digital operations of The New York Times Company, says: “A pure free-for-all doesn’t, in my opinion, equal good. It can equal bad.”
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1 comments about 'New York Times adds comments to news stories'They will only let you comment on the stories that do not have a lot of opposition to the NY Times slant.Like Climate Gate
Posted by NY man at December 7, 2009 8:46 PM
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