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> I'm fairly certain virtually every newspaper on this planet will gladly give someone who is subject of criticism a page to respond Are you familiar with the
by ufmace 6y ago
> I'm fairly certain virtually every newspaper on this planet will gladly give someone who is subject of criticism a page to respond
Are you familiar with the James Bennet / Tom Cotton incident at the New York Times? The self-proclaimed Paper of Record forced their editorial page editor, James Bennet, to resign for publishing an op-ed by sitting US Senator Tom Cotton advocating for a position supported by a majority of the US population - that we allow US Military to assist local police in dealing with out-of-control riots.
We are way, way past the era of giving people who are the subjects of criticism space to respond.
- Barrin92 6y agoYes I'm aware and I personally disagree with how that case was handled. However, the context of the thread here is reader comments. My point was, a person of public interest and subject of an article ought to have a right to respond,that's good journalistic practise and generally happens today still. Joe Schmoe from the comment section doesn't, and never had, and it's not a reasonable thing to demand. Just a few years ago readers got to write letters to newspapers, and when the newspapers thought the comments had something particularly thoughtful to say they'd publish them at their discretion. But the quality of user comments in general is so low, there's no reasonable case to be made that they all ought to stay up.