The decision by The Dallas Morning News to switch to facebook's comment section amounts to flushing the opinions of its readers down the drain.
A recent example of a conflict between the opinion expressed by The Dallas Morning News and the opinions expressed by its readers manifested itself pertaining to the building of the Trinity River Tollway. It is clearly apparent that the people have come around to thinking this is a big waste of hundreds of millions of dollars, sits as a detriment to the park making it second fiddle to the desires of developers, and makes the levees less functional in containing floods.
Change has come to the newspapers threatening the jobs of editors and writers alike. You see, the readers have been setting the agenda regarding issues while serving as the lead editor of the paper. A lot of the complaints typed into the posts by readers were comments regarding many of the poorly written first drafts of blogs presented by the writers of the Dallas Morning News.
In other words, the readers have been gaining insight in learning how the writing process truly works. There is no such thing as a brilliant writer. Even the best writers have to rewrite and revision their work many times.
Back in the day, our intelligence agencies influenced public opinion through disinformation presented by the press. The British created this technique to maintain their empire and the Russians perfected it to keep the Soviet Union together.
Why is The Dallas Morning News doing this? Why has it decided to do this so close to election time? Are they doing this because it favors Obama's reelection?
I don't pay into this newspaper because, in the past, paying for a newspaper was only necessary to pay for its delivery. The fact fewer businesses sponsor this paper's propaganda (which there is always two sides of) by advertising in it is because of their own arrogance.

At some point ALL local papers will only be online where they can open reader opinion forums as much as they like. But because such forums often invite crazy, racist, or defamatory speech, I think these online forums will have to be closely monitored. For a sample of just how obnoxious it can get, click here: http://www.nypost.com/news/opinion






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At some point ALL local papers will only be online where they can open reader opinion forums as much as they like. But because such forums often invite crazy, racist, or defamatory speech, I think these online forums will have to be closely monitored. For a sample of just how obnoxious it can get, click here: http://www.nypost.com/news/opinion






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In order to keep the Slavic people of eastern Europe subordinate to the Russian people in the old Soviet Union, the intelligence agencies utilized the commercial media. After the fall of the Soviet Union, our intelligence agencies learned a lot from them in how to keep the people lost and confused.
Also, in helping to centralize the individual powers of the fifty United States towards a collective power of the federal government, the commercial media back in the 90s were allowed to incorporate doing away with lots of competition on the local level, doing away with a lot of secondary newspapers like The Dallas Times Herald and The Houston Post in the process. At the same time, a new type of commercial media began to awaken called the World Wide Web (Internet).
This Internet began to threaten to put the old commercial media out of business helping to do away with even more local service causing even more incorporation of local companies into national companies. In order for them to survive, these national companies resorted to, not competition in pleasing customers as they had to do in the past, but to lawyers to lobby the Federal government.

In order to keep the Slavic people of eastern Europe subordinate to the Russian people in the old Soviet Union, the intelligence agencies utilized the commercial media. After the fall of the Soviet Union, our intelligence agencies learned a lot from them in how to keep the people lost and confused.
Also, in helping to centralize the individual powers of the fifty United States towards a collective power of the federal government, the commercial media back in the 90s were allowed to incorporate doing away with lots of competition on the local level, doing away with a lot of secondary newspapers like The Dallas Times Herald and The Houston Post in the process. At the same time, a new type of commercial media began to awaken called the World Wide Web (Internet).
This Internet began to threaten to put the old commercial media out of business helping to do away with even more local service causing even more incorporation of local companies into national companies. In order for them to survive, these national companies resorted to, not competition in pleasing customers as they had to do in the past, but to lawyers to lobby the Federal government.

I miss the Post. It was a good paper. Even my grandpa that worked for the Chronicle read the Post on a daily basis for his own interests to get a better perspective on what was going on locally.

Great move! The vast majority of the posters had nothing constructive to say anyway.