My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Tag Archives: commenting
Journalism can’t be a one-way street anymore
I don’t know who made up the rule that news reporters aren’t supposed to respond to public comments about and critiques of their work. Maybe it’s not even a rule. Maybe its one of those arbitrary rules that somebody thought was a good idea once upon a time, though it really had no basis in [...]
Posted in Authority Issues, New Media, Social Networking Also tagged communication, journalism Comments closed
Responding to readers by proxy
After reading a story on the Billings Gazette’s Web site about a woman who spent several months living in a sandstone cave above the city, I perused the story’s comments. This was among them: My question is, why didn’t the reporter respond himself? If there’s a policy preventing him from doing so, why does the paper [...]
A cooling off period in Bloomington, Ill.
Okay, this is the wrong way to build a civil community on your newspaper’s Web site. Just before the new year, the staff at the Pentagraph in Bloomington, Ill., decided that the comments on its stories were too uncivil, so the paper took its ball and went home: Reader comments on Pantagraph.com often are informative, [...]
Posted in New Media, Print Culture, Social Networking Also tagged community, Lee Enterprises, Pentagraph Comments closed
Comment moderation: How far is too far?
Matthew Ingram has a short post up about a comment moderation decision made by Kurt Greenbaum at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In short, Greenbaum made a call to the system administrator behind an IP address that left two vulgar comments. As a result, the commenter lost his job. It’s a post that’s sparked some fascinating questions [...]
Posted in Authority Issues, New Media, Social Networking Also tagged Kurt Greenbaum, Matthew Ingram, moderation Comments closed
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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