For those of you who are interested in media narratives and how media applies varying modes of coverage, you will see that the Washington Post's main homepage article is on this hostage situation, but totally closed to reader comments. And looks like it's the same thing for the NYTimes.
It's rare that articles occupying center stage on …
For those of you who are interested in media narratives and how media applies varying modes of coverage, you will see that the Washington Post's main homepage article is on this hostage situation, but totally closed to reader comments. And looks like it's the same thing for the NYTimes.
It's rare that articles occupying center stage on homepage are closed to reader comments.
There is a larger, refreshed article in the Post as of this afternoon. The comments I saw were largely not anti-semitic. But I really don't think it was the danger of anti-semitism that really drove the closing of comments in an earlier article.
For those of you who are interested in media narratives and how media applies varying modes of coverage, you will see that the Washington Post's main homepage article is on this hostage situation, but totally closed to reader comments. And looks like it's the same thing for the NYTimes.
It's rare that articles occupying center stage on homepage are closed to reader comments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/15/texas-synagogue-hostages/
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/15/us/synagogue-hostage-texas-colleyville
As regards the Post, they have commenters that are attracted to stories about Jews like bees on honey and naturally they are all Jew haters.
There is a larger, refreshed article in the Post as of this afternoon. The comments I saw were largely not anti-semitic. But I really don't think it was the danger of anti-semitism that really drove the closing of comments in an earlier article.