I have read and commented on his articles for years. I am opinionated on them. His were only moderately better than most other places. >these days I tend to be

I have read and commented on his articles for years. I am opinionated on them. His were only moderately better than most other places. >these days I tend to believe that comment sections are just tumors on otherwise good journalism, and that we’d all be better off without them. Comments sections are great when the writer is lying or obfuscating, which happens with shocking regularity. It's great when someone in the comments section adds context to a story that the writer neglected to include, either though ignorance or malice. I would say for local news, you quite often have to go to the comments section to even find out what really happened.