Web comments and talk radio alike introduce this problem to the media. You can only sell your spin if shut down the readers' right to react.
This is only a problem, of course, when your motivation isn't to spur thought and discussion, but to push your agenda on your readers.
Take today's CBS article on Energy Policy, for example, which allows no comments and is just an Obama promotion,verses Reuter's article on Obama's attack on McCain.
The second article has (at the time of this writing) 95 comments. It's a much more responsible and balanced article. It has to be, or your visitors will correct you.
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