As The New York Times transforms itself into a multimedia news and information platform — the printed newspaper plus a robust nytimes.com offering breaking news, blogs, interactive graphics, video and more — it is struggling with a vexing problem. How does the august Times, which has long stood for dignified authority, come to terms with the fractious, democratic culture of the Internet, where readers expect to participate but sometimes do so in coarse, bullying and misinformed ways?
Clark Hoyt, Public Editor der New York Times, erklärt laut EditorandPublisher.com, warum sich die Zeitung jetzt entschieden hat, Online Kommentare unter Texten aus der Zeitung zuzulassen.
