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October 12, 2007
Jesse Wins
Guest blogger Jesse Kornbluth wins the argument with this post:
"I am not in favor of stifling free speech. I say: 'Let a thousand morons bloom.'
It's a real estate issue. Given the value of the Times main screen, why put some brain-dead Republican operative an inch away from Paul Krugman--or even David Brooks? I'm hungry for news, and that real estate is valuable; fill it with high-protein news, or leave it blank so my aging eyes can catch a mini-rest.
Proximity suggests equivalency. The guy who thinks man and dinosaurs romped together 6,000 years ago has a right to express his opinion--just in a space where we look for opinion. But on the main screen of the Times website? Why, so it can start to look like Fox?"
I think the proximity-equals-eqivalency argument is decisive and wins. So I concede to Jesse that the comments page should have a link under a story, as it is now, so people can peruse them if they want, but that individual comments, good or bad, should not be a sub-head post under a story, as they were this morning.
I hope the Times learned something from this experience, I know I did.
Posted by Charles Warner at October 12, 2007 04:14 PM
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