Online public comments came in for
quite the criticism at the annual National Conference of Editorial Writers, the North American body for editorial-page leaders.
The journalists said that oversight of those comments shouldn't have been surrendered, that the comments-for-traffic trade has been a mistake, and that the standards of news organizations have been hurt by the arrival of comments.
While a panel discussion indicated that there is too much value in these comments to eliminate them, there was agreement that vigilant oversight is needed.
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