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Originally Posted by taglines
And reading the comment sections -- what some editors now refer to as THE AFTER-ARTICLE -- often is more interesting and enlightening and rewarding to the reader than the original article. Or as interesting. Or both combined make up a new kind of reading experience. I feel it mirrors the new realities of online journalism. And it's good!
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Sometimes, yes. However, the comments sections of most news sites seem to rapidly descend into a mess of trolling, name-calling, and locked-in arguments where nobody listens to each other...hardly enlightening.