{"id":595,"date":"2007-09-10T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2007-09-10T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T23:12:00","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-allow-comments-on-news-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/09\/why-you-shouldnt-allow-comments-on-news-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you shouldn&#8217;t allow comments on news stories&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_7FX8PyQEiZw\/RuWX7ThF6KI\/AAAAAAAAAHU\/SZw53TbLGQk\/s1600-h\/Adage.jpeg\"><\/a><br \/><span class=\"dropcaps\">B<\/span>ecause sometimes readers aren&#8217;t stupid. Take <a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/mediaworks\/article?article_id=120301\" target=\"_blank\">the innocuous-looking piece above<\/a> from <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">AdAge<\/span>. Someone called Roger has actually read it and asks:<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_7FX8PyQEiZw\/RuWYMDhF6LI\/AAAAAAAAAHc\/F9ZOLlJpimU\/s1600-h\/pressrelease.jpeg\"><\/a>If you followed the link, you might just agree with him. There&#8217;s no reply from <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">AdAge<\/span> (your opinion is requested but presumably not valued), but if you are going to allow comments <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">and<\/span> recycle press releases don&#8217;t be surprised if they look a little like Roger&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because sometimes readers aren&#8217;t stupid. Take the innocuous-looking piece above from AdAge. Someone called Roger has actually read it and asks:If you followed the link, you might just agree with him. There&#8217;s no reply from AdAge (your opinion is requested but presumably not valued), but if you are going to allow comments and recycle press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}