| My post last weekend on the Globe's comments section generated, amusingly, 138 comments. Apparently, bloggers and blog readers like to talk about nothing so much as blogging!
Anyway, here's an interesting postscript to the whole topic. The Globe is right now running an in-depth seven-part series on Ted Kennedy, from his childhood to (this Sunday) the present day. Today's installment: Chappaquiddick. One can only imagine what the commentariat at the Globe would be saying about that.
But indeed, one can only imagine. Because the Globe is not allowing comments on any of the Kennedy stories. Why? Because the Kennedy stories are not "news," but rather a retrospective? But why should that matter? Because they're afraid that the comments will be overwhelmingly negative? But surely that would defeat the purpose of allowing comments in the first place. If you only allow comments on stories you think will generate positive commentary, you're doing it for the wrong reasons.
A curious choice. I'd like to know why they made it.
UPDATE: As Judy notes in the comments, they have now opened up comments, including on past articles. Maybe it was just a technical glitch. So, if you're up for it, here are the Chappaquiddick comments. |
