bedupivi wrote:

Thanks Florida Duck! How about that, a newspaper that still lets their readers make on-line comments. A few of the comments:

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Yeah, I think quite a few newspapers still do. Mlive (Michigan) still allows them and has the same newspaper setup at Oregonlive. I think it was a poor business move on Olive's end. A lot of used to go to Olive multiple times a day to check comments that would come through, which meant more ad revenue for the newspaper. Now that the comments are gone, I go there maybe once a day. I'm sure they're putting a defensive business case together that the drop in ad revenue (in the sports section) is due to football season being over and not as many people paying attention to basketball, T&F, and baseball, but I think they will still see a continuous decline come Q3 & Q4 and they won't be able to use the football excuse to defend their decision. At the end of the day, I think comments were pulled not for revenue reasons but Oregonlive didn't want political comments, or criticisms aimed at their newspaper/journalists. 

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