{"id":10701,"date":"2013-09-28T09:17:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T09:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10701"},"modified":"2013-09-28T09:17:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T09:17:27","slug":"desperate-msm-culling-comment-sections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10701","title":{"rendered":"Desperate MSM culling comment sections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/msm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10702\" alt=\"msm\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/msm.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a>Desperate to cling onto their ability to dictate reality, the crumbling mainstream media is beginning to kill off article comment sections in a cynical bid to silence dissenting voices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jcc4.12009\/full\">Studies confirm<\/a>\u00a0that article comment sections \u2013 for better or worse \u2013 are heavily swaying public opinion. How many times have you read a mainstream news article about NSA spying, drones, gun control or any other other hot button issue where the author sides with the establishment, only to have their argument completely eviscerated by a deluge of irate respondents in the comment section?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/163052\/americans-confidence-congress-falls-lowest-record.aspx\">Recent polls show<\/a>\u00a0that trust in mainstream media is hovering at record lows. After largely failing to influence the court of public opinion\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7zVgy9Jk0Ec&amp;feature=share&amp;list=UUittVh8imKanO_5KohzDbpg\">via paid trolls<\/a>, the establishment is starting to panic and is responding by moving to cull comment sections altogether.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2013-09\/why-were-shutting-our-comments?src=SOC&amp;dom=tw\">Popular Science<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/06\/28\/in-case-you-missed-a-roundup.html\">BoingBoing.net<\/a>\u00a0recently announced their decision to kill comment sections on their website. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/20\/comments-on-comments\/?_r=1\">New York Times also recently indicated\u00a0<\/a>that it is scaling back comments and removing them from some articles altogether.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">As an excellent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Editorial%2BPopSci%2BKills%2BComments%2BBlames%2BGlobal%2BWarming%2BEvolution\/article33437.htm\">Daily Tech piece<\/a>\u00a0highlights, Popular Science admitted that its decision to pull the comment section was in order to preach a \u201cscientific doctrine\u201d on global warming without being challenged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">The origin of the word \u201cdoctrine\u201d is to indoctrinate. Therefore, Popular Science is taking the most\u00a0<em>unscientific<\/em>\u00a0approach possible \u2013 by censoring debate and stifling alternative ideas \u2013 in order to indoctrinate its readers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision to kill comment sections on news websites will only result in the mainstream media losing traffic to alternative sites which allow free expression and do not resort to censorship. &#8211; infowars.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desperate to cling onto their ability to dictate reality, the crumbling mainstream media is beginning to kill off article comment sections in a cynical bid to silence dissenting voices. Studies confirm\u00a0that article comment sections \u2013 for better or worse \u2013 are heavily swaying public opinion. How many times have you read a mainstream news article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10701\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Desperate MSM culling comment sections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[6554,6552,4106,6553],"class_list":["post-10701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-comment-sections","tag-mainstream-media","tag-msm","tag-swaying-public-opinion"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/msm.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10703,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701\/revisions\/10703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}