I’m trying quite hard to stay out of the business of chasing after curmudgeons with a laptop in my hand, shouting “But you got it all wrong!”
Trying. Quite. Hard.
So let this be just a generic blanket response to a common misconception about the business of online news.
The premise, as laid out in hand-wringers [...]
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Comment trouble at the Arizona Daily Star
Danny Sanchez points out an explainer from the Executive Editor of the Arizona Daily Star on why comments were deleted from some stories:
“While we created the reader comments feature to give readers a place to talk, StarNet is still our house. And our editors and staff simply do not want guests [...]