NJ Removes Comments on Wu Story
Many sites grapple with the concept of commenters. Some journalists do too. Keep them. Lose them. Some scribes have strict self-policies to never read comments. So how much freedom is too much?
Politico has contemplated removing them, but so far hasn’t. The now defunct Politics Daily struggled with it and had a heavily moderated comment section — former Editor-in-Chief Melinda Henneberger once wondered to NPR whether publications are trading humanity for negative attention. And most recently a Capitol Hill publication was asked to remove comments beneath a post but the request was not honored.
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