On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Charles
Matthews<charles.r.matthews(a)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