Techdirt: Say That Again Say That Again by Mike Masnick Fri, Jul 17th 2009 12:11pm Share This Filed Under: comments, community, douglas bailey, journalism, media, newspapers Permalink. Media Consultant: Comments Are Bad, Please Shut Up
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 09:35 via Delicious/martinstabe
"[Douglas Bailey] assumes that because plenty of comments on newspaper sites are dumb the problem is the commenters or the very act of commenting itself. ... The problem isn't that the commenters are dumb and pointless, but that the newspaper failed to put in place incentives to encourage smarter comments." Read More...
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