I would wager if you added it up, the blogging industry (however you want to define it) lost a lot less money last year than the net loss of the New York Times alone. Would love to be proved wrong, but I think we in the blogging world just aren't brave enough.
The Times employs 11 people to moderate online comments, more than twice the number of reporters on the masthead at The Huffington Post. One might mistake such quality control for timidity, or for an anachronistic journalistic indulgence. But even as Sulzberger has aggressively led The Times onto the Web, he is betting that his paper’s dedication to high-quality journalism is its most valuable asset, however costly it now seems.
Thank God for brave thinkers like Sulzberger, otherwise how would we bear the horror of lightly moderated comment threads?
Posted by: Michael Sippey | October 13, 2009 at 10:38 AM
FIRST!T!T!
Posted by: David Jacobs | October 13, 2009 at 11:08 AM
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Posted by: Michael Sippey | October 13, 2009 at 11:13 PM
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Posted by: Jeff Reine | October 14, 2009 at 08:40 AM