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Matthew Parris

The wheat and the chaff of online comments

16 May 2013

1:00 PM

16 May 2013

1:00 PM

What’s to be done about the online comments sections in daily newspapers? These (for those estimable Spectator readers who have yet to succumb to tablets, iPhones and computer screens) are the spaces that the online versions of newspapers and magazines provide beneath the articles they publish, for readers to offer (or ‘post’) thoughts of their own.

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