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I will throw out some kindness and common sense. NO ONE - except the progressives who depend on ferociously monopolizing Twitter - thinks that Musk buy for free speech will ruin Twitter Riche...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/11/losing-twitter-hurts-journalism/#comment-6197579467

Good info on the profs. It's kind of sad that when you read a blog on a Harvard journalism website that you have to go and do you own investigative journalism in orders us out the motivation of t...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/how-self-publishing-social-media-and-algorithms-are-aiding-far-right-novelists/#comment-5886703894

The author of this article is criticizing how scientists communicate while seemingly unaware of the purposes of some elements found in scientific literature. Acronyms, for example, actually reduc...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/how-science-helps-fuel-a-culture-of-misinformation/#comment-5885725262

Spend 45 seconds looking at their profiles and it's pretty obvious these two profs are earlobe-deep in Marcusian ideology. One of them has devoted a huge portion of his academic career to the Fra...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/how-self-publishing-social-media-and-algorithms-are-aiding-far-right-novelists/#comment-5884074372

There is nothing new here that that newspapers haven't known for decades about readers and content. The resistance to paying for news now also is 25 years old because most newspapers simply gave ...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/i-follow-all-these-pages-and-i-still-dont-get-answers-this-new-report-is-a-great-example-of-centering-consumers-in-local-news-research/#comment-5883743850

I don't agree! Freelancers need this support!

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/the-freelance-isnt-free-act-passes-to-protect-workers-contracted-by-new-york-companies-even-if-they-dont-live-in-the-state/#comment-5882324738

I identify with the historical neglect that Sussman has sustained. The process, as I have endured it as a veteran Nashville-based multimedia journalist, has been a little more targeted amid a c...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/all-the-newsrooms-men-how-one-third-of-the-watergate-three-got-written-out-of-journalism-history/#comment-5881490775

Who said hiring private contractors was free? No one, except left wing unions and activists. This law was not written or supported by independent contractors, (aka "freelancers"). It is an old ...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/the-freelance-isnt-free-act-passes-to-protect-workers-contracted-by-new-york-companies-even-if-they-dont-live-in-the-state/#comment-5881485919

News desert is a phony phrase manufactured by activists. It's used by those who blame others for the deficiencies of American left wing journalism/activism. The reality is that today there are mo...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/how-college-students-can-help-save-local-news/#comment-5880943899

Wow. This is an angry leftist screed. This article encapsulates the world view of the white liberal. It's pretty limited. I guess there are no left wing extremists?

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/how-self-publishing-social-media-and-algorithms-are-aiding-far-right-novelists/#comment-5880287734

Toxicity= Everything you could say the far woke liberals doesn't agree with. They couldn't win the war so they give up and burned the house

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/news-sites-that-turn-off-commenting-dont-drive-users-to-social-media-instead/#comment-5879499427

https://www.bartleby.com/es... Yes they do, "As much as Einstein fought, Bohr just kept fighting back. Bohr came up with every counterargument possible and even brought up Einstein’s Theory of...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/06/yes-its-worth-arguing-with-science-deniers-and-here-are-some-techniques-you-can-use/#comment-5877631773

If "acceptance of social inequality" is a benchmark for what constitutes "far-right" sentiment, then the echo chamber dwellers on both sides of the Pacific (Deakin U and Nieman/Harvard) are furth...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/how-self-publishing-social-media-and-algorithms-are-aiding-far-right-novelists/#comment-5876772878

Definitely a pay scale that publishers will like!

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/how-college-students-can-help-save-local-news/#comment-5874768995

The most common climate manipulation in media is the phrase "climate change." The debate has never been over climate change. No one is saying there has never been an ice age. The debate is and ...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/want-to-reach-skeptics-researchers-suggest-leaving-the-term-climate-change-out-of-some-news-coverage/#comment-5874690046

Media outlets catch and spread “cyberchondria” first, and then advise readers/viewers to avoid suffering from it. News consumers need a tutorial on how to defend themselves from news outlets'...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/05/stop-googling-monkeypox-and-read-this-story-about-cyberchondria-and-the-news/#comment-5869105361

If you don't have a legacy print platform, you don't have the underpinning for the digital counterpart. It's that simple and that is especially true for the kind of content that Condé Nast has t...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/05/conde-nast-is-no-longer-a-magazine-company-its-ceo-says/#comment-5868477958

Valuable distinctions indeed but as far as Elon Musk’s doubts about non genuine accounts it seems to me the issue is how many users Twitter actually has as a measure of market size (i.e., users...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/05/how-many-bots-are-on-twitter-the-question-is-tough-to-answer-and-misses-the-point/#comment-5867016445

I'm curious if any publications have experimented with the W3C webmention spec for notifications as a means of handling comments? Coming out of the IndieWeb movement, Webmention allows people to ...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/05/reader-comments-on-news-sites-we-want-to-hear-what-your-publication-does/#comment-5866169924

Those in digital publishing know that news is no longer a one way one way conversation. It hasn't been that for a long time now. Commenting is essential. It is part of news consumption in the d...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/05/reader-comments-on-news-sites-we-want-to-hear-what-your-publication-does/#comment-5866149228

Toxic backlinks commonly display signs of low quality or an attempt to manipulate rankings. How do you know if your backlinks are toxic? check out this article for that: https://www.amineducate....

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/the-flip-side-of-black-hat-seo-if-your-news-site-publishes-paid-links-you-risk-googles-wrath/#comment-5865011690

I refuse to pay for news that is distributed solely online, for the same reason this avid book reader doesn't buy ebooks. I was the local newspapers' best customer, subscribing to both my local...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/05/why-wont-some-people-pay-for-news/#comment-5862953090

What if 90% of the "people" who "see your logo all day" are bots?

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/05/whats-working-for-local-tv-stations-on-facebook-posting-early-killing-hashtags-skipping-sports/#comment-5860079337

Brand awareness. People see your logo all day instead of just when your newscasts air.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/05/whats-working-for-local-tv-stations-on-facebook-posting-early-killing-hashtags-skipping-sports/#comment-5859957864

The TV content is edifying, I'm sure.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/05/whats-working-for-local-tv-stations-on-facebook-posting-early-killing-hashtags-skipping-sports/#comment-5859123477