On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Charles Matthewscharles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"... encyclopedias have been made better by the advent of the internet, but newspapers have been made worse: the cumulative impact of the readers’ comments that can now be appended online to almost any article tends to diminish most forms of human understanding."
I don't get it. Reader communities are one of the few ways a newspaper reporting a global story can distinguish itself from every other paper on the net.
Steve