Many struggling newspapers have adopted a tactic that is akin to the anonymity that TalkRadio offers. After many articles, folks can make uncredited comments, using pseudonyms that are registered with the paper. Readers only see the phony name.
At least actual names are required when readers write a letter-to-the-editor. Sometimes the editor will include an "editor's note" at the end of a particularly venomous letter...and I had to wonder why The Gadsden Times didn't do so in a letter published last week. Isn't there a difference between an opinion and a lie? And should newspapers allow anonymous comments?
(By the way, the photo above is an ad for a 1939 "radio newspaper", kind of an early Net web page delivered in print to your home. Read about it here.)
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