The Sacramento Bee allows readers to post comments to its online news stories. This follows a trend toward increased reader involvement. Desperate to resuscitate a dying industry, online newspapers all over the country allow readers to vent their goo.
Problem is, newspapers serve a different role than myface or spacebook. In traditional print journalism, social networking intersects with journalism in the letters to the editor. Editors vet comments. They even reply to some letters.
Giving readers a platform to expand ignorant, prejudiced ideas beneath a professionally written and edited story diminishes the newspaper.
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