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Posted on 11/07/2015 12:58:43 PM PST by Beave Meister
Washington (AFP) - The Internet was supposed to facilitate better exchange between the public and news media. But vile and hateful comments changed all that.
In the face of rising vitriol -- attacks, bigotry and general nastiness -- news organizations are increasingly throwing in the towel on online comments.
Last month, Vice Media's Motherboard news site turned off reader comments, saying "the scorched earth nature of comments sections just stifles real conversation."
It instead began taking "letters to the editor" to be screened by staff.
Vox Media's online news site The Verge said in July it was "turning off comments for a bit," noting that the tone was "getting a little too aggressive and negative."
Blogging platform Medium this past week allowed its users to hide reader comments, acknowledging that "sometimes you may not want to get in a discussion."
The Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Beast, news website Re/code, the millennial-focused news site Mic and Popular Science also have shut off comments.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Yep back to to the safety of the bubble.
It means the folks are increasingly disgusted with the media and that the media won’t acknowledge it.
I have noticed a clamping down of comments sections and forums the past decade.
Correct, the media don’t like the pushback.
It is true that many reader comments are obnoxious and trollish, but most of these outlets just don’t like being challenged.
I am sure they detest it when they, say, write a hit piece about Carson and wind up with a majority of comments supporting him.
Then again, liberals tend to completely dominate the comment sections on news aggregator sites like Reddit, Slashdot, Digg, etc. For most of these types of sites there is no reason for a conservative person to even think of posting there.
In other words, it was supposed to make it easier for Liberalism to jam itself down everyone's throats.
I often go straight to the comments. You usually learn more from them anyway.
So much “news” is really propaganda these days anyway.
They don’t like the public undermining their propaganda. It costs lots of money to produce and can be destroyed for free by one truthful comment.
NRO on our side has been roasted in the comments for being anti-Trump GOPe shills. They must not read their own feedback.
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The worst abuser of censorship is FB. Few liberal trolls come on conservative sites but they come. If you post links to facts they cry you’re “Hateful” and get posts removed and posters put in timeout. Liberals cannot stand truth.
Stories about the beast on Yahoo were completely ove3r run by conservatives....this is why we will see changes.
TRANSLATION: We don't like comments that disagree with us.
FINE WITH ME. Cut off comments and people won’t even bother reading the content (a little media lingo, for those of you in Rio Linda).
So have at it, IDIOTS.
The establishment is being challenged for the first time in 40+ years and the liberals don’t like it because they are on the receiving end this time.
Townhall has gotten really bad at removing posts.
Disgusting.
ABC still allows comments but changed their format. The kind of comments generated usually depends on the story. Usually it's liberals who take over, but a few times conservatives prevail. And it isn't always all about liberals and conservatives; some people aren't really either.
Politico comments I see the link on most stories, show comments, but they won't show any more for me. I think maybe you have to be signed up. And it has all seemed to happen since the Hillary Clinton email scandal broke.
Washington Post I was surprised, never used that site because I knew it was liberal. It's like a more civil version of ABC. I know comments are censored/deleted but aren't shown like ABC's are. I guess liberals usually dominate although some the Clinton email scandals drew a lot of conservative types. And a minority of their reporters are conservative.
Youtube allows comments but not on some videos, seems to be at the discretion of the owner/producer of the video. Some are news and some aren't.
Our local paper allows comments but they are liberal shifty, and many have dropped out because there's little actual discussion. They put a Donald Trump helicopter news item in Entertainment like Huff Po so nobody would see it. They do with other articles. Another trick is if the story gets too many comments and they don't like it, they reframe the story and start over. Sometimes history won't ferret out the original article because they have pulled it entirely or changed the link.
prisonplanet allows comments and to the extreme. I used to listen to Alex before he got on the web through a station in the state I could pull in on AM. I only call it a news site because some of it is true but most is sensational or follows their agenda, much of which is probably not true.
Oh, I forgot Newser. It allows comments on some stories but not others. Even though I somehow got Disqus by logging into my yt account or my old ABC user name, not sure which, but I would still have to give my email address to post.
I suppose little by little, we will lose our free speech to comment. I think it draws hits to the site to allow comments. Can't think of any other news site.
Smells of desperation. They're losing, and they won't have it. Sorry about their luck, the internet exposed their lies, too bad it took twenty years for many people to notice!
And some comments by the public aren't very nice, either.
The left thought process is being disected and it is being found incapable of sustaining life on it's own
The left mentality must increase it's false premise for existence exponentially as it is exposed
I thought Gowdy did a SUPER job in his verbage and accusations and like a cock in a barnyard, Hillary strutted away as if she was a winner.
In my local paper they went away from anonymous logins to using FB login. I noticed a rapid decline in vitriolic comments. When people realize other people can see who they are, they clean it up.
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